The connection between religion and politics in the Roman Republic has long been of interest for both scholars and laymen and its discussion has made an interesting development over the last decades. Lily Ross Taylor wrote in 1949 in her book “Party politics in the Age of Caesar” that the Roman state religion was “inseparably bound up with politics” and further goes on that religion served as a mean of the governing nobles to manipulate the masses. However, nearly 50 years later Mary Beard, John North and Simon Price challenged this view in their masterpiece “Religions of Rome” which was published in two volumes. They argue that we have to assume that actions were only seldom politically motivated because the reports we have about the priestly
