All the “roads” lead to Philippi: The history of the greatly travelled ‘Via Egnatia’
The “Via Egnatia” was the most important road in antiquity in Macedonia and Thrace. Basically, it served as a Roman military and commercial highway constructed between 146 – 120 BC and named after the man who ordered its construction: Proconsul Gaius Egnatius. Like all Roman roads, the pavement of the Via Egnatia was about six …
