Law is a particularly fruitful means by which to investigate the relationship between religion and state. It is the mechanism by which the Roman state and its E

Drawing on epigraphic, legal, literary, and numismatic sources, this book reveals how, in the Roman Republic, law and religion interacted to serve the same purp

of the Pope." --Book Jacket.

What did the Romans know about their gods? Why did they perform the rituals of their religion, and what motivated them to change those rituals? To these questio