It's also a lot easier for them: by making the conquered people's gods into Roman gods a celebration in honour of the native god becomes a celebration of a Roman one.
"You thought you were celebrating Zeus? lol! You're celebrating Jupiter."
(As an aside, one of my favourites, the early Christians later very sucessfully employed similar tactics)
dJE
"You thought you were celebrating Zeus? lol! You're celebrating Jupiter."
(As an aside, one of my favourites, the early Christians later very sucessfully employed similar tactics)
dJE
That's right, I completely forgot Still, it was much more mature on their part, finding parallels with each other and agree to these, instead of now that every religion Highlanders itself saying "There could be only one"...