and later still to Byzantium (Strabo, Geog. 7.7.4; cf. Hammond, “The Western Part …,” and, for a good popular account of recent date, O’Sullivan, The Egnatian Way). As may be gathered from 1 Maccabees 8:1–16, the story of the overthrow of the Macedonian kings, losing nothing in the telling, made a deep impression on the inhabitants of Syria and Palestine as they learned more and more about those invincible Romans from the distant west (cf. Bruce, “The Romans through Jewish Eyes”). Macedonia thus