Massalia was an Ionian colony .
The ancient Greek view of the heavenly bodies on which their navigation was based was imported from Babylonia by the Ionian Greeks , who used it to become a seafaring nation of merchants and colonists during the Archaic period in Greece .
Massalia was an Ionian Greeks colony .
The ancient Greek view of the heavenly bodies on which their navigation was based was imported from Babylonia by the Ionian Greeks , who used it to become a seafaring nation of merchants and colonists during the Archaic period in Greece .