A number of stories in Greek mythology involve cannibalism, in particular cannibalism of close family members, for example the stories of Thyestes, Tereus and especially Cronus, who was Saturn in the Roman pantheon.

The Celtic " horned god ", while well attested in iconography, cannot be identified in description of Celtic religion in Roman ethnography and does not appear to have been given any interpretatio romana, perhaps due to being too distinctive to be translatable into the Roman pantheon.

Diocletian was conservative in matters of religion, a man faithful to the traditional Roman pantheon and understanding of demands for religious purification, but Eusebius, Lactantius and Constantine state that it was Galerius, not Diocletian, who was the prime supporter of the purge, and its greatest beneficiary.

He replaced the traditional head of the Roman pantheon, Jupiter, with the deity of whom he was high priest, Elagabal.

Elagabalus saw this as an opportunity to install Elagabal as the chief deity of the Roman pantheon.

Venus has been described as perhaps " the most original creation of the Roman pantheon ", and " an ill-defined and assimilative " native goddess, combined " with a strange and exotic Aphrodite ".

Her male counterparts in the Roman pantheon, Vulcan and Mars, are active and fiery.

Moreover, as Hercules, he could claim to be the son of Jupiter, the representative of the supreme god of the Roman pantheon.

Potter, Decius did not try to impose the superiority of the Roman pantheon over any other gods.

In terms of religion, the Roman pantheon was adopted although a native sungod, Belenus, had a large following.

In Greek mythology, maenads ( Greek: μαινάδες, mainádes ) were the female followers of Dionysus ( Bacchus in the Roman pantheon ), the most significant members of the Thiasus, the god's retinue.

He was deified after his death, although his exact status in the Roman pantheon was uncertain.

The author had a clear objective: that the Christians be defended from the non-Christian Roman ’ s accusations that the arrival of the Germans was a reprimand because the Christians had forsaken the city ’ s traditional pantheon of gods.

Indeed, the other Roman gods are repeatedly perplexed, humiliated, and made ridiculous by Amor, an otherwise relatively minor god of the pantheon, who is the closest thing this putative mock-epic has to a hero.

In Roman mythology, Evander ( from Greek Εὔανδρος Euandros, " good man " or " strong man ": a spelling and etymology affected by poets to emphasize the hero's virtue ), also spelled Euander, was a deific culture hero from Arcadia, Greece, who brought the Greek pantheon, laws and alphabet to Italy, where he founded the city of Pallantium on the future site of Rome, sixty years before the Trojan War.

Much of Etruscan religion and mythology became part of classical Roman culture, including the Roman pantheon.

Roman occupation of Egypt followed in 30 BC, and their pantheon of deities also was identified with the Greek interpretations of the Ancient Egyptians.

A 2006 book by Yale historian Walter Goffart is called Barbarian Tides and uses barbarian throughout to refer to the larger pantheon of tribes that the Roman Empire encountered.

Leonhard Schmitz suggests that he was likely the most important god in the Roman archaic pantheon.

Greek and Roman religion were essentially local in character ; the Roman Empire attempted to unite its disparate territories by inculcating an ideal of Roman piety, and by a syncretistic identifying of the gods of conquered territories with the Greek and Roman pantheon.

Someone also suggested that these large roads were used to quickly move an army from the canyon to the outlier communities, a purpose similar to the road systems known for the Roman empire.

They did not dawdle at the hour of decision but attacked quickly, using a massive series of short, rapid, vicious charges against the length of the whole Roman line, with charging units sometimes withdrawing to the forest to regroup while others took their place.

Several colonies were placed in new provinces or on the border of the Empire in order to secure Roman holdings as quickly as possible.

Then Fabius quickly sought to calm the Roman people by asserting himself as a strong Dictator at the moment of what was perceived to be the worst crisis in Roman history.

Gustavus intervened on the anti-Imperial side, which at the time was losing to the Holy Roman Empire and its Catholic allies ; the Swedish forces would quickly reverse that situation.

Following the Roman conquest of Britain in AD 43, the aboriginal Catuvellauni quickly submitted and adapted to the Roman life ; resulting in the development of several new towns, including Verulamium ( St Albans ).

The Hagia Sophia architects innovatively combined the longitudinal structure of a Roman basilica and the central plan of a drum-supported dome, in order to withstand the high magnitude earthquakes of the Marmara Region, “ However, in May 558, little more than 20 years after the Church ’ s dedication, following the earthquakes of August 553 and December 557, parts of the central dome and its supporting structure system collapsed .” The Hagia Sophia was repeatedly cracked by earthquakes and was quickly repaired.

Dependent on Charles of Anjou in nearly everything, the new Pope quickly appointed him to the position of Roman Senator.

In the 15th century Ptolemy's Geographia began to be printed with engraved maps ; the earliest printed edition with engraved maps was produced in Bologna in 1477, followed quickly by a Roman edition in 1478 ( Campbell, 1987 ).

On the other hand, others bemoaned the austere Roman culture during his papacy ; Giorgio Vasari in 1567 spoke of a time when " the grandeurs of this place reduced by stinginess of living, dullness of dress, and simplicity in so many things ; Rome is fallen into much misery, and if it is true that Christ loved poverty and the City wishes to follow in his steps she will quickly become beggarly ...".

The International Commission on English in the Liturgy quickly prepared an English translation of the 1970 Roman Missal, which was approved by the individual English-speaking episcopal conferences and, after being reviewed by the Holy See, was put into effect in each of their countries, beginning with the United States in 1973.

The Roman commander quickly abandoned the area, however, deeming it too poor to warrant colonization.

They are quickly dispatched by the Roman Army.

Andriscus ' brief success at reestablishing the monarchy in 149 BC was quickly followed by his defeat the following year and the establishment of direct Roman rule and the organization of Macedon as the Roman province of Macedonia.

Caesar quickly arrives with Roman troops.

Rule of the island was passed from the Normans to the Hohenstaufen Kings, followed by the Angevins, and then the Aragonese, until Carlos I, the Aragonese King became the Spanish King, and then quickly was crowned Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.

With the advent of the Roman Empire, there was a need for armies to be able to travel quickly from one area to another, and the roads that existed were often muddy, which greatly delayed the movement of large masses of troops.

Roman cursive or informal handwriting started out as a derivative of the capital letters, though the tendency to write quickly and efficiently made the letters less precise.

As a Roman colony Beneventum seems to have quickly become a flourishing place ; and in the Second Punic War was repeatedly occupied by Roman generals as a post of importance, on account of its proximity to Campania, and its strength as a fortress.

The Roman officials, allegedly due to bribes but perhaps more likely because of a desire to quickly end conflict in a profitable client kingdom, settled the fight by dividing Numidia into two parts.

The Roman Senate quickly voted it as a new province.