WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -In Athenian law, a citizen was someone born from citizen parents. Until the mid-fifth century, one parent of citizen birth, usually the father, sufficed for citizen status, but since Pericles’ Citizenship Law of 451/0 only those born from two citizen parents could participate (metechein) in the Athenian polis.