Whether the result of internal revolution or external factors, in the late sixth centuryBCRome underwent regime change. A king, or at least a sole ruler of some sort, was replaced by a governmental system in which power was distributed amongst a wider aristocratic group. Just what that elite group comprised at that point in time remains open to question, and the institutional reality is certainly more complicated than the simple shift from monarchy to consulship portrayed in the later literary sources;1but as part of that change, according to Roman tradition, a priesthood was instituted to perform the deposed king’s sacred duties. This priesthood provides us with an opportunity to reappraise the role of religion in the development of the Roman state, and a useful locus from which to assess changes in religious and political power in the transition from monarchy to Republic at Rome.

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政治、权力和神性：TheRex Sacrorum 和罗马从君主制到共和国的过渡

无论是内部革命还是外部因素的结果，在六世纪后期公元前罗马经历了政权更迭。一个国王，或者至少是某种唯一的统治者，被一种权力分配给更广泛的贵族群体的政府制度所取代。那个时代的精英群体究竟是什么，还有待商榷，制度现实肯定比后来文献中描述的从君主制到执政官制的简单转变要复杂得多；1但作为这一变化的一部分，根据罗马传统，设立了祭司制度来履行被废黜国王的神圣职责。这种神职人员为我们提供了一个重新评估宗教在罗马国家发展中的作用的机会，并为我们提供了一个有用的场所，可以用来评估罗马从君主制向共和国过渡期间宗教和政治权力的变化。