The Maccabees were a bunch of Jews who were doing jewish things to Greek society in the Levant during the years of 175 BC to 164 BC.
The maccabee jews started a civil war with the "hellenized" jews where the Maccabees ralied around their rituals rights and traditions.
Antiochus enforced Zeus worship and the jews cried out.
The maccabee rituals were explicitly banned, and many jews slaughtered when they rallied around the religious practices.
The banning of the rituals was a "total departure from typical seleucid practices in other settings."
I wonder what these rituals were that caused the biblical maccabees to be banned and slaughtered over?