On the characteristics of the ancient roman religion by G. Dum'ezil. Book review: Dum'ezil G. The religion of Ancient Rome, with an appendix, dedicated to the Etruscan religion = La religion Romaine archa"ique, avec un appendice sur la religion des 'etrusques / Transl. from French by T. I. Smolyanskaya. M.: Tradition; St. Petersburg: Quadrivium, 2018. 891 p. (Seria Hellenica)

The article is a review of the book “The religion of ancient Rome” by the outstanding French religious scholar, historian of religion, linguist, mythologist and structuralist Georges Dumézil, first translated into Russian in 2018. The authors consider the scope of activity and main interests of the scholar, as well as the main idea of his scientific search - the identification of a pure tripartite structure applicable to Indo-European societies and, therefore, present in Roman culture. It is shown how Dumézil reveals various manifestations of the tripartite structure in the chapters of the book devoted to ancient Roman gods, theology and cult. It is concluded that the author studied profoundly the topic of the Indo-European religion and demonstrated throughout his work many of its parallels with the religion of ancient Rome. It is suggested that Dumézil was close to expressing the tripartite model in Christianity, but did not come to realize the manifestation of this model in the Trinity of God beyond Indo-European cultures.