Players must take small towns set in and around ancient Greece and build them into prospering cities through domestic and foreign trade. There are all sorts of minutiae to take care of in order to make sure that the workers and inhabitants of your city are happy with their surroundings.
Players start out with a town and then build it up until the first goal is reached.
The great thing about each campaign is that once goals are reached and a new mission starts, players get to continue to use the same town on which they were working. In this way players can get attached to the town during play, and have a great feeling of completion at the end of the campaign. The natural disasters such as earthquakes, erupting volcanoes and floods simply cannot be avoided, and may destroy sections of your city. It's up to you as a leader to over come the disasters. Fortunately the disasters are few and far between.