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The centre of Atlantis.
Important features.
The series of concentric rings of land and water that formed the centre of Atlantis had as its own centre three important features. One was the rulers palace, the other was a shrine sacred to Poseidon and the third was the hot springs that Poseidon had made to flow. Plato gives us the following description.
Sacred shrine.
“The construction of the palace within the acropolis was as follows. In the centre was a shrine sacred to Poseidon and Cleito, surrounded by a golden wall through which entry was forbidden, as it was the place where the family of the ten kings was conceived and begotten; and there year by year seasonal offerings were made from the ten provinces to each one of them.
Temple of Poseidon.
There was temple of Poseidon himself, a stade in length, three hundred feet wide and proportionate in height, though somewhat outlandish in appearance. The outside of it was covered all with silver except for the figures on the pediment which were covered with gold. Inside the roof was ivory picked out with gold, silver and orichalc. It contained golden statues of the god standing in a chariot drawn by six winged horses, so tall that his head touched the roof, and round him, riding on dolphins a hundred Nereids, as well as many other statues dedicated by private persons.
Greatness of the Empire.
Round the temple there were statues of the original ten kings and their wives and many others dedicated by kings and private persons belonging to the city and its dominions. There was an altar of a size and workmanship to match that of the building and a palace equally worthy of the greatness of the Empire and the magnificence of its temples.
The two springs.
The two springs, cold and hot provided an unlimited supply of water for appropriate purposes, remarkable for its agreeable quality and excellence; and this they made available by surrounding it with suitable buildings and plantations, leading some of it into basins in the open air and some of it covered hot baths for winter use. Here separate accommodation was provided for royalty and for commoners, and again for women for horses and for other beasts of burden, appropriately equipped in each case .
Aqueducts and bridges.
The outflow ( from the springs) they led into the grove of Poseidon, which because of its goodness of soil was full of trees of marvellous height and beauty, and also channelled it to the outer ring-islands by aqueducts at the bridges. On each of these ring-islands they had built many temples for different gods, and many gardens and areas of exercise, some for men and horses. On the middle of the larger island in particular there was a special course for horse-racing; its width was a stade and its length that of a complete circuit of the island which was reserved for it. Round it on both sides were barracks for the main body of the King’s bodyguard.
The most trustworthy.
A more select body of the more trustworthy were stationed on the smaller island ring near the citadel, and the most trustworthy of all had quarters assigned to them in the citadel and were attached to the King’s person.
Dockyards of triremes.
Finally there were dockyards of triremes and their equipment, all in good shape. So much then for the arrangement of the royal residence and its environs. Beyond the three outer harbours there was a wall beginning at the sea and running right round in a circle at a uniform distance of fifty stades from the largest ring and the harbour and returning on itself at the mouth of the canal to the sea. This wall was densely built up all round with houses and the canal and large harbour were crowded with vast numbers of merchant ships from all quarters, from which rose a constant din of shouting and noise day and night.”
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