The Greek empire

[RickFGS]

Clearly the best strategy here is the most classic for this type of situations:

Take your wife, daughter and gold, steal the fastest ship on the dock and get the hell out of there, leave a note on the desk saying "its been fun, later".

Back on topic: Do you have money? If you are greece, you must have, buy armoured hoplites, all the mercs around and buy the brutti and scipii armies off, the ones without a leader on them, if they have a leader buy 3 assassins and kill it, then buy the army off.

Tip: Greece is too esposed in every sides by a lot of enemies (thats why the hoplite formations where created, so that few in that mountains terrain could survive against many), never over expand before consolidating your holds, a couple hoplites, archers, light cavalry and skirmishers behind city walls can kill most the AI sends your way, so identify key cities, strategic locations (mountain passes, river crossings, forest ambush spots) and protect them well. Place spies far ahead of your empire borders to view the AI´s concentration of troops, have a good transport system on the water, one single bireme can take an entire army, thats a huge advantage in his game unlike others like civilization, so spread a couple biremes around, upgrade your roads, and remember always have a reserve of gold stacked for emergencies specially on mid/later parts of the game.

When you fight Julli and Brutti you are automatically at war with the Scipii and the Senate so what were you thinking leaving scippii cities intact behind your lines, its pratically an invitation.