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Plato's Dialogue Critias Is the Second in What Had Been Planned As A Plato (ca. 427––ca. 347 BCE), written 360 BCE Adapted from the 1871 translation by Benjamin Jowett (1817–1893) lato’s dialogue Critias is the second in what had been planned as a trilogy of discourses. In Critias, which follows along Pclosely after the action of Timaeus, Socrates continues to discuss the story of the war between Athens and Atlantis. The description of Atlantis from this dialogue follows. Critias is speaking: And next, if I have not forgotten what I heard when I was a child, I will impart to you the character and origin of [the Athenians’] adversaries. For friends should not keep their Map of Atlantis by esotericist Athanasius Kircher, S.J. stories to themselves, but have them in common. from Mundus Subterraneus (1665) Yet, before proceeding further in the part of the island, which I will describe. narrative, I ought to warn you, that you must Looking towards the sea, but in the center of not be surprised if you should perhaps hear the whole island, there was a plain which is Hellenic names given to foreigners. I will tell said to have been the fairest of all plains and you the reason of this: Solon, who was very fertile. Near the plain again, and also in intending to use the tale for his poem, the center of the island at a distance of about enquired into the meaning of the names, fifty stadia, there was a mountain not very and found that the early Egyptians in high on any side. writing them down had translated them In this mountain there dwelt one of the into their own language, and he recovered earth–born primeval dwellers of that country, the meaning of the several names and whose name was Evenor, and he had a wife when copying them out again translated named Leucippe, and they had an only them into our language. My great– daughter who was called Cleito. The maiden grandfather, Dropides, had the original had already reached womanhood, when her writing, which is still in my possession, father and mother died; Poseidon fell in love and was carefully studied by me when I with her and had intercourse with her, and was a child. Therefore if you hear names breaking the ground, enclosed the hill in such as are used in this country, you must which she dwelt all round, making alternate not be surprised, for I have told how they zones of sea and land larger and smaller, came to be introduced. The tale, which encircling one another; there were two of land was of great length, began as follows: and three of water, which he turned as with a Poseidon Founds Atlantis lathe, each having its circumference I have before remarked in speaking of the equidistant every way from the center, so that allotments of the gods, that they distributed no living soul could get to the island, for ships the whole earth into portions differing in and voyages were not as yet. He himself, extent, and made for themselves temples and being a god, found no difficulty in making instituted sacrifices. And Poseidon, receiving special arrangements for the center island, for his lot the island of Atlantis, begat children bringing up two springs of water from by a mortal woman, and settled them in a beneath the earth, one of warm water and the Page 5 other of cold, and making every variety of were brought to them from foreign countries, food to spring up abundantly from the soil. and the island itself provided most of what He also begat and brought up five pairs was required by them for the uses of life. of twin male children; and dividing the island In the first place, they dug out of the of Atlantis into ten portions, he gave to the earth whatever was to be found there, solid as first–born of the eldest pair his mother’s well as fusile, and that which is now only a dwelling and the surrounding allotment, name and was then something more than a which was the largest and best, and made him name, orichalcum, was dug out of the earth king over the rest; the others he made princes, in many parts of the island, being more and gave them rule over many, and a large precious in those days than anything except territory. And he named them all; the eldest, gold. There was an abundance of wood for who was the first king, he named Atlas, and carpentry work, and sufficient maintenance after him the whole island and the ocean were for tame and wild animals. called Atlantic. To his twin brother, who was Moreover, there were a great number of born after him, and obtained as his lot the elephants in the island; for as there was extremity of the island towards the Pillars of provision for all other sorts of animals, both Heracles, facing the country which is now for those which live in lakes and marshes called the region of Gades in that part of the and rivers, and also for those which live in world, he gave the name which in the Hellenic mountains and on plains, so there was for language is Eumelus, in the language of the the animal which is the largest and most country which is named after him, Gadeirus. voracious of all. Of the second pair of twins he called one Also whatever fragrant things there now Ampheres, and the other Evaemon. To the are in the earth, whether roots, or herbage, or elder of the third pair of twins he gave the woods, or essences which distil from fruit and name Mneseus, and Autochthon to the one flower, grew and thrived in that land; also the who followed him. Of the fourth pair of fruit which admits of cultivation, both the twins he called the elder Elasippus, and the dry sort, which is given us for nourishment younger Mestor. And of the fifth pair he gave and any other which we use for food—we call to the elder the name of Azaes, and to the them all by the common name pulse, and the younger that of Diaprepes. All these and fruits having a hard rind, affording drinks and their descendants for many generations meats and ointments, and good store of were the inhabitants and rulers of divers chestnuts and the like, which furnish pleasure islands in the open sea; and also, as has and amusement, and are fruits which spoil been already said, they held sway in our with keeping, and the pleasant kinds of direction over the country within the Pillars dessert, with which we console ourselves after as far as Egypt and Tyrrhenia. dinner, when we are tired of eating—all these The Family of Atlas that sacred island which then beheld the light of the sun, brought forth fair and wondrous Now Atlas had a numerous and and in infinite abundance. With such honorable family, and they retained the blessings the earth freely furnished them; kingdom, the eldest son handing it on to his meanwhile they went on constructing their eldest for many generations; and they had temples and palaces and harbors and docks. such an amount of wealth as was never before possessed by kings and potentates, and is not The Arrangement of Atlantis likely ever to be again, and they were And they arranged the whole country in Rosicrucian furnished with everything which they needed, the following manner: First of all they bridged Digest both in the city and country. For because of over the zones of sea which surrounded the No. 2 the greatness of their empire many things ancient metropolis, making a road to and 2006 Page 6 from the royal palace. And at the very please the eye, and to be a natural source of beginning they built the palace in the delight. The entire circuit of the wall, which habitation of the god and of their ancestors, went round the outermost zone, they covered which they continued to ornament in with a coating of brass, and the circuit of the successive generations, every sovereign next wall they coated with tin, and the third, surpassing the one who went before to the which encompassed the citadel, flashed with utmost of the regal power, until they made the red light of orichalcum. the building a marvel to behold for size and Palaces and Temples of Atlantis for beauty. The palaces in the interior of the citadel Beginning from the sea they bored a were constructed on this wise: in the center canal of three hundred feet in width and one was a holy temple dedicated to Cleito and hundred feet in depth and fifty stadia in Poseidon, which remained inaccessible, and length, which they carried through to the was surrounded by an enclosure of gold; this outermost zone, making a passage from the was the spot where the family of the ten sea up to this, which became a harbor, and princes first saw the light, and thither the leaving an opening sufficient to enable the people annually brought the fruits of the largest vessels to find ingress. earth in their season from all the ten portions, Moreover, they divided at the bridges the to be an offering to each of the ten. zones of land which parted the zones of sea, Here was Poseidon’s own temple which leaving room for a single trireme to pass out was a stadion in length, and half a stadion in of one zone into another, and they covered width, and of a proportionate height, having over the channels so as to leave a way a strange barbaric appearance.
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