Greek city-states. At time, "Greece" wasn't nevertheless a rustic and was, as a substitute, a gaggle of warring town-states all vying for dominance of the Peloponnesus. These city-states, Sparta and Pylos, lie east of Ithaca, Odysseus' island property to the Ionian sea, and therefore lie nearer to Troy as well as route on which Odysseus travels in