But one of them exceeds all the rest in greatness and valour. "Many great and wonderful deeds are recorded of your state in our histories. POSEIDON & KLEITO (Plato Critias 113d) NAMES OF THE TEN KINGS OF ATLANTISĪTLAS, GADEIROS, AMPHERES, EUAIMON, MNESEOS, AUTOKHTHON, ELASIPPOS, MESTOR, AZAES, DIAPREPRES (Plato Critias 114b)ĬLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES PLATO'S ISLAND OF ATLANTIS
Sprung self-formed from GAIA the Earth (Plato Critias 113d) PARENTS OF KLEITO FIRST PRINCESS OF ATLANTISĮUENOR & LEUKIPPE (Plato Critias 113d) PARENTS OF THE TEN KINGS OF ATLANTIS Other realms proposed by philosophers and writers which resemble Atlantis include the fabulous southern island of Pankhaia (Panchaea) and the blessed Heliades islands.įAMILY OF THE ATLANTEAN KINGS PARENTS OF EUENOR FIRST KING OF ATLANTIS Plato may have the same nation in mind for he names the second Atlantean king Gadeiros after a famous Phoenician colony near the Straits of Gibraltar. Diodorus Siculus describes their Titan-mythology and wars with the Libyan Amazones. The term "Atlanteans" was also applied by the Greeks to the Phoenician colonies along the Barbary Coast of North Africa-i.e. ATLANTIS was a legendary island realm of the far west which was sunk beneath the ocean by the gods to punish its people for their immorality.
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