WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Athenian definition of “citizens” was also different from modern-day citizens: only free men were considered citizens in Athens. Women, children, and slaves were not considered citizens and therefore could not vote.

Detailed explanation-2: -Estimates of the population of ancient Athens vary. During the 4th century BC, there might well have been some 250, 000–300, 000 people in Attica. Citizen families could have amounted to 100, 000 people and out of these some 30, 000 would have been the adult male citizens entitled to vote in the assembly.

Detailed explanation-3: -To be classed as a citizen in fifth-century Athens you had to be male, born from two Athenian parents, over eighteen years old, and completed your military service. Women, slaves, metics and children under the age of 20 were not allowed to become citizens.

Detailed explanation-4: -The so-called golden age of Athenian culture flourished under the leadership of Pericles (495-429 B.C.), a brilliant general, orator, patron of the arts and politician-”the first citizen” of democratic Athens, according to the historian Thucydides.

Detailed explanation-5: -Not everyone in Athens was considered a citizen. Only free, adult men enjoyed the rights and responsibility of citizenship. Only about 20 percent of the population of Athens were citizens. Women were not citizens and therefore could not vote or have any say in the political process.

Detailed explanation-6: -A Metic is a term that refers primarily to a non-citizen person permanently dwelling in Athens between 500 and 400 BC, a time in which foreigners were welcomed to settle in the city because of their positive impact on trade, culture and education.