What greek city state was governed by an oligarchy?

Aristotle divided Greek governments into monarchies,oligarchies, tyrannies and democracies, and most historians still use these same divisions. For the most part, Greece began by having monarchies, then oligarchies, then tyrannies and then democracies, but at each period there were plenty of city-states using a different system, and there were many which never did become democracies or tyrannies at all. read more

In other Greek states then, there were also democratic assemblies, sometimes, though, with a minimum property stipulation for attendees (as in the Boiotian federation 447-386 BCE). Some city-states also mixed democratic assemblies with a monarchy (for example, Macedonia and Molossia). read more

Oligarchy supposes the government of a minority, while democracy supposes the government of many people. In the Ancient Age, these two opposed systems of governing was one of the points that faced two rival polis': Athens and Sparta. read more