Can someone check my grammar for my essay? One of the main differences about Athens and Sparta is: Athens was a form of democracy and Sparta was a form of oligarchy. Athens was less interested with aesthetics, but more interested into military success! The Sparta army was pretty strong actually not pretty but very, they are considered legendary. The Spartan government was an oligarchy like I said, they had girl’s education, they wanted to train the girls to be warriors. There life was pretty simple. The only focus they had was on obedience and war.