Was Ancient Athens Truly A Democracy

Was Ancient Athens truly a democracy? Why or why not? My perspective is no ancient athens weren't a truly democracy because as Herodotus stated in the article there were a thousand of Persians but that was just because they had to add up the king’s sea forces to the soldiers on foot to battle. But ancient athens wrent a truly democracy because the democracy was about man's right to vote but not all women had the opportunity to vote as men did. That was the problem with the Athenian democracy because it was a democracy system which had the right to vote. But only citizens had the right to vote and that wasn’t fair to others. Athenian democracy is ruled by a whole lot of people but Athenians only allowed male citizens to vote but not women,free