The temple to Poseidon and Cleito was a stadium long, half a stadium wide, with ivory roof, gold, silver, and orichalcum decorations, including a gold statue of Poseidon in a chariot.
Poseidon established the civilization by uniting with a mortal woman, Cleito, whose parents Evenor and Leucippe were the island's original inhabitants born from the earth; he enclosed her dwelling on a central hill with alternating zones of sea and land for protection, created springs of hot and cold water, and ensured abundant food from the soil.
Plato’s Absence: Atlantis has no cosmic dimension—its origin is terrestrial, tied to Poseidon and mortal Cleito (Critias 113c-e), with no mention of stars, extraterrestrials, or metaphysical planes.
They claimed descent from "the twelve great gods," which must have meant the twelve gods of Atlantis, to wit, Poseidon and Cleito and their ten sons.
Poseidon: Greek god who received Atlantis as his allotment, fathered its kings with a mortal woman, Kleito (Cleito).
Kleito (Cleito): Mortal woman, daughter of Euenor (Evenor) and Leukippe (Leucippe), mother of Atlantis’ kings by Poseidon.
Bordering on the sea and extending through the center of the whole island there was a plain, which is said to have been the fairest of all plains and highly fertile; and, moreover, near the plain, over against its center, at a distance of about 50 stades, there stood a mountain that was low on all sides.Thereon dwelt one of the natives originally sprung from the earth (autokhthones), Euenor (Evenor) by name, with his wife Leukippe (Leucippe); and they had for offspring an only-begotten daughter, Kleito (Cleito).
In the center there stood a temple sacred to Kleito (Cleito) and Poseidon, which was reserved as holy ground, and encircled with a wall of gold; this being the very spot where at the beginning they had generated and brought to birth the family of the ten royal lines.
The most important temple was dedicated to Poseidon and Cleito, and it was surrounded by a golden enclosure.
113a-113bThe Atlantean kings were descended from Poseidon and Cleito, who had five pairs of twin sons.
He weds Cleito.
In Plato’s Critias, Poseidon receives Atlantis, weds Cleito, and fathers five pairs of twin sons.
Each king governed one of the ten regions of Atlantis, and they were said to be descendants of Poseidon, the god of the sea, and Cleito.
In Plato’s Critias, the kings of Atlantis are five pairs of twin sons born to Poseidon and the mortal woman Cleito.
Popular lists add Cleito and Poseidon to the ten sons.
Then I give Cleito and Poseidon their roles.
He unites with Cleito.
A temple in the citadel is dedicated to Cleito and Poseidon together.
Cleito is the only daughter of Evenor and Leucippe, an earth-born couple on a mountain of that country.
In this mountain there dwelt one of the earth born primeval men of that country, whose name was Evenor, and he had a wife named Leucippe, and they had an only daughter who was called Cleito.
Cleito is mother of the five twin pairs.
Cleito maps to Aditi as mother, not as king.
Critias names ten twin sons of Poseidon and Cleito, led by Atlas.
Popular lists reach twelve by adding Cleito and Poseidon.
Who was Cleito?Cleito is the only daughter of the earth-born couple Evenor and Leucippe.
The firstborn son of Poseidon and Cleito.
He marries a mortal woman named Cleito and fathers ten sons who become the kings of Atlantis.
Poseidon marries a mortal woman named Cleito.
He creates concentric rings of water and land to protect the central part of the island where Cleito lives.
Donnelly reiterates the story of Poseidon and Cleito, mentioning their ten sons who ruled Atlantis.
Like Plato and Donnelly, Bridgman-Metchum recounts the marriage of Poseidon to Cleito and their progeny, who become the rulers of Atlantis.
In this mountain there dwelt one of the earth-born primeval men of that country, whose name was Evenor, and he had a wife named Leucippe, and they had an only daughter, who was named Cleito.