actually it was on these forums when people where debating one of the 3 hanno the greats there was someone who posted links to similar travels but this time by the massilians ans going north instead of going south, for them to do this they had to travel the strait and since the punii had already taken over the straight with the building of mastia it was agreed on those links that the massilians had "persuaded" the massilians to open up the straight

the roman conquest i knew it was ceaser but the small details i was unaware but it made no sence to conquer the city unleass he was afraid they could be a problem and evacuate the pompeian legions from spain

as for the conection the only one everyone makes is that they where all greek and therefore had some type of "solidarity" for each other, i believed i read on one of the aar´s that emporion and massilia had some type of conection and thus this conection could be extended into arse somehow :X

anyway i would love to play a campaign where the western greek cities where united while all the forts in the region are in the hands of the native tribes giving it a new look and a new gameplay

anyway the person i replyed to was calling massylia a small colony wich in fact i tend to not believe it was a very important port in that region and therefore if we draw a compariston with athens wich also had a great port in it. it had all it needed to be a major polis since it was an hub for comerce beteween keltoi and the "civilized" world