The Spartan council did not rule Athens.
Sparta was ruled by two kings and its council, the Gerousia.
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.
Athens had a unique government, a direct democracy. This meant that every Athenian citizen voted on laws and legislation. Sparta was ruled by two kings and a 28 member council of elders.
The assembly of citizens ruled, making decisions. The council carried out the assembly's decisions. The courts of citizen juries ruled on legal matters - no judges or lawyers.
Athens ruled the Delian League.
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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.
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Sparta was ruled by only a few of its men, but Athens was ruled by all of its male citizens.
Until Cleisthenes set up a democracy in 508 BCE, the aristocratic Council on the Areopagus ruled the city. This Council was an oligarchy which means 'rule by the few' (a monarchy = rule by one, a democracy = people power).
The pharaoh and his council.