Athens ruled the Delian League.
ATHENS
Pericles ruled Athens in 460 b.c when Athens and Sparta were the most powerful city-states
Olympia was a site, and therefore not ruled by anyone. People are ruled. Olympia was in the territory of the city of Elis.
Sparta was ruled by only a few of its men, but Athens was ruled by all of its male citizens.
The Spartan council did not rule Athens.
Direct democracy
Athens
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This changed over the centuries. Sparta was ruled by two kings, a council. and an assembly Athens was ruled first by a king, then an aristocracy, then by a tyrant, then by an assembly of the people. Persia was ruled by a king and his council.
Pericles ruled Anicent Athens
The city Councillors elected by the people.