How could we have a Liguria wank?

im talking the Celtoc tribe that was in the place before Rome. Could we have them more advanced socially with influence from Greece, Etruria, and Carthage?

And by wank, basically Mediterranean domination, not necessarily conquest.
 
Ligures may not have been Celts, or at least really distinct sub-group of Celts.
(In fact, it's quite problable Greeks called Ligurians a set of different peoples)

We don't know much about Ligures, except they probably dwelled on Mediterranean Gaul up to Narbonne until Toscana (and probably including Corsica). They don't seems to have been unified (in fact, we know nothing about any unifying feature, would it be cultural or anything else before their contact with Greeks).

From what we know about their material culture, they relied heavily on tribal features, and if able to create tribal states and hegemonies (particularly on contact with Greek, Iberians and Etrusceans) as Celts they weren't able (or even concieved) a real political unity.

The best Ligure-wank I could think of would implies the absence of Rome, and Salyan hegemony (Salyes being the strong Celto-Ligurian neighbour of Massaliotes) taking on successfully on its neighbours in a first time and then able to take on Massalia, Brennos-style.
Maybe a more aggressive Massaliote policy on its countryside? Or an alliance with a more aggressive Carthage against Greeks?
 
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