Late Night Musings

About to fall asleep, a bolt of inspiration struck me from the Powers that Be, and on the back of the nearest piece of paper (sorry, possibly important Internet receipt), I scribbled the following ideas:

• Some form of comparison between Greek and Roman pantheons
  Just seems to be some similarities between the gods and goddesses between pantheons, and by some, I mean a lot. Would be interesting to do a 'to what extent' kind of thing for this.
• Which political system was better for the Romans? Emperors or their republican system?
  Well, they did like to change from one to the other often, so it would be cool to compare the two, point out the good and the bad bits from both. Could concentrate on the whole Julius Caesar thing, with the whole 'we have a republic, it sucks, make me emperor, oh you want to kill me instead? I'll get the last laugh with my adopted heir becoming emperor instead' trick, but would have to look at other instances as well, ie. Caligula/Gaius, and some examples from the republic times that I'll have to find. 
• Roman adoption or assimilation of English gods during their invasion and occupation of the country
  Essentially, this one came about from an episode of Time Team I saw where they claimed the English god of a local spring was adopted by the Romans who took over the area and basically accepted as a household god.
  This question eventually leads to the following one:
• The effect of the Roman occupation on the burial rites of both the Romans and the British
  Again, Time Team is the inspiration behind this, where they found a man buried in the Christian way brought over by the Romans, but one of the stones lining his sarcophagus bore the name of a local god in a way which suggested it was placed to appeal to a pagan religion. 

At the moment, I would be happy to do any of these, but I am probably most fond of the second one.

Any other ideas that come to me will probably be along similar lines, for I am more interested in the Romans than Ancient Greece, and so would prefer to choose a topic from this classical world, purely to maintain my motivation to complete this Study. Tying my topic in with the Roman occupation of Britain would also be pretty cool, as again, this is an aspect of the Ancient Roman world which fascinates me, but I'm not sure if I would go for it, as I have a gut feeling it might get a bit too complicated. I'd prefer to stick to a simpler topic because it will inevitably get complicated eventually, but is still nicer at the beginning when you're getting used to it.