Though beer was drunk in Ancient Rome, it was replaced in popularity by wine. Tacitus wrote disparagingly of the beer brewed by the Germanic peoples of his day.
Upper class Romans did not drink beer. It cost half the price of bad wine and consequently, was not for the sophisticated. In Italy and Gaul beer was made from rye. The Spaniards discovered how beer could be kept under pressure, which was when it acquired a foamy head. Pliny valued the foam for the yeast it contained. Beer-foam is used by women for cosmetic purposes.
"Bacchus was the Roman god of agriculture and wine, similar to the Greek Dionysus. He was the last god to join the twelve Olympians; Hestia gave up her seat for him. His plants were vines and twirling0 ivy. He often carried a pinecone-topped staff, and his followers were goat-footed Satyrs and Maenads, wild women who danced energetically during his festivals."
"In ancient Roman religion and myth, Faunus was the horned god of the forest, plains and fields; when he made cattle fertile he was called Inuus. He came to be equated in literature with the Greek god Pan."
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