I did some digging for you the only thing I found was his age and his religion so B would be the best answer
The main reason why the Catholic Church was committed to defending the literal meaning of the Bible passages is because they feared that people would stray from the church if they started to develop their own, different interpretations of the Bible.
Sparta and Athens had very different governments. Sparta was a militaristic state. This means that all decisions made by the government revolved around the wants and needs of the military. This resulted in Sparta developing one of the strongest armies in the world during this era.
Athens on the other hand had a form of democracy. A democracy is when individual citizens have a say in what laws are made and what representatives there are in the government. This gave the average Athenian much more political power in comparison to Sparta.