A comprehensive analysis of the role of religion in the political system of the Roman Republic is presented. Problems such as the sacred content of magistrate power, the religious powers of higher magistrates (consulate, dictatorship, censorship), the political significance and forms of influence of priests (pontiffs and augurs), the participation of religious and political bodies in the procedure for establishing temples, the status of temples in Roman society are explored in detail. -political organization. The key problem of the study is the study of the right to public auspices (fortune telling), which expressed the religious and political unity of the republican state structure. Issues of interaction between religion and power are considered in close connection with the analysis of the specifics of Roman society and the peculiarities of its worldview. For specialists, students of humanities and everyone interested in the history of Ancient Rome and ancient Roman religion. Contents: Introduction 7Chapter I. SOURCE AND IMPORTANCE OF MAGISTRATE AUSPECIES 35I.1. Auspices in the religious life of Republican Rome 35I.2. Curiat Law on the Empire 39I.3. Source of magistrate's auspices: electoral comitia 63I.4. Change of supreme power: empires and auspices 89I.5. The question of auspices in the struggle between patricians and plebeians 107Chapter II. RELIGIOUS POWERS AND SACRED CONTENT OF MAGISTRATE AUTHORITY 117II.1. Sacred aspects of royal power 118II.2. Religious powers of the ordinary magistracy 143II.3. Sacred aspects of the early republican dictatorship 153II.4. Religious powers of the censorship 180Chapter III. PRIESTS IN THE POLITICAL SYSTEM OF REPUBLICAN ROME 198III. 1. Roman public priesthood: origins and general characteristics 201III.2. College of Augurs 226Ш.З. College of Pontiffs 264111.4. Supreme Pontiff and election of plebeian tribunes in 449 BC. e 293111.5. College of Priests of Sacred Actions 307Chapter IV. TEMPLES: FOUNDATION PROCEDURE AND PUBLIC LEGAL POSITION 324IV.1. Votum: promise of the public temple 326IV.2. Locatio: allocation of temple site 343IV.3. Dedicatio: dedication of the temple building 359IV.4. Participation of private individuals in the establishment of public churches 380IV.5. Economic situation and social role of temples 392IV.6. Legal protection of sacred property in ancient Rome 408Conclusion 425Notes 438Bibliography 578List of abbreviations 601