Just what did Plato actually have to say on the
Atlantis mystery? Often his words have been distorted but below is his actual account.
Origins of Atlantis.
Poseidon’s island.
To the Egyptian priests of Sais, who kept diligent records, Atlantis was Poseidon’s island. At the dawn of
time the gods decided to portion out the world between them and “Poseidon’s share was the island of Atlantis,” where he settled his children “borne to him by a mortal woman.”
Concentric rings.
According to Plato “the centre of the island (midway along its greatest length ) was a plain said to be the
most beautiful and fertile of all plains, and near the middle of this plain about fifty stades inland a hill of no great size. Here there lived one of the original Earth-born inhabitants called Evenor
with his wife Leucippe. They had an only child, a daughter called Cleito. She was just of marriageable age when her father and mother died and Poseidon was attracted by her and had intercourse with her,
and fortified the hill where she lived by enclosing it with concentric rings of sea and land. There were two rings of land and three of sea, like cartwheels, with the island at their centre and
equidistant from each other,making the place inaccessible to man ( for there were no sailing ships in those days).
God-like lavishness.
He - Poseidon - equipped the central island with god-like lavishness; he made two springs flow, one of hot
and cold water and caused the Earth to grow abundant produce of every kind.”
