Human and divine in the dialectic of powers in ancient Rome

Abstract

The relationship between human and divine, i.e. between priesthood and empire, is one of the central themes of human history. In ancient Rome, from the age of the reign to the age of the republic and up to the constitutions of the Emperor Justinian in the new Rome, the relationship between human and divine is always in the middle of the institutional arrangements, whether internal to the city or shared among different populations.