Was Greek democracy "democratic"?From the Ancient Greece

By our modern standards, ancient Greek democracy was not very democratic, at least not in most ways.

The one thing that was, arguably, more democratic about their system was the fact that all voters were allowed to give their opinions on (and vote on) various issues.  This was a "direct democracy" as opposed to our "representative democracy" where we only get to vote for the people who make the laws (rather than on the proposed laws themselves).

However, very few Greeks were allowed to vote.  No women were allowed to vote.  Only men who had a certain amount of property were generally allowed to/able to hold office.  It is estimated that something like only 10% of all the people in Athens were allowed to vote.  So in that way it wasn't very democratic.