Only (male) citizens were allowed to have any voice in Athens' affairs and only they could act as jury and judges in legal disputes.
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In democratic Athens, citizenship was not a birthright, it was inherited, since both parents had to be Athenian. Also citizenship could be granted by a special vote for service to the state.
Athens was the capital of ancient Greece so i was very important!
All women and people whose parents were not born inside the city were denied citizenship in ancient Athens.. Different laws were replaced, changed, added and deleted as the city advanced.
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You had to be a freeborn male born in Athens from Athenian parents.
Many of the Athenians considered citizenship a privilege.
Citizens were freeborn land owning males who were 21-years-old and older, both of whose parents were Athenian. Everyone else was denied citizenship.
- Citizenship alloted many privileges to the population of Athens - Voting in direct democracy, those giving them a chance to have a saying in everything other Athenians did
because to win Athens over she had provided the first olive tree providing wood, olive oil and food... :)
All adult males who could prove their descent from an Athenian family.