Higher classical studies

Roman Citizenship: Qualification

Civitas or citizenship in Ancient Rome can be divided into four classes:

• Male Citizen
• Roman Women
• Client State Citizens
• Freedmen

Male citizens could gain citizenship as the legitimate child of a Roman citizen, male children gained male citizen rights, female citizens female rights. On some occasions individuals were granted citizenship rights. Citizenship could be removed from an individual.

Roman Women were citizens but had limited rights. They had property and legal rights but not political…