Cleito is the mortal woman at the very root of Plato's Atlantis: the daughter of an earth-born couple, the wife of Poseidon and the mother of its first kings.
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.
On the same page I stress that Cleito becomes mother of the five twin pairs but is not a king herself in Critias.
On Poseidon: High Priest of Atlantis and God of the Seas he marries the mortal Cleito, fathers ten sons who become the kings of Atlantis, and creates the concentric rings of water and land around the place where she lives.
On Atlas: the firstborn son of Poseidon and earth-born Cleito I follow her firstborn, Atlas.
On Critias, the story of Atlantis the Atlantean kings descend from Poseidon and Cleito, who had five pairs of twin sons.
On The Egyptian Colony Ignatius Donnelly takes "the twelve great gods" to mean the twelve gods of Atlantis: Poseidon, Cleito and their ten sons.
On Main city of Atlantis the temple to Poseidon and Cleito is a stadium long and half a stadium wide, with an ivory roof and decorations of gold, silver and orichalcum.
On Critias, the story of Atlantis the most important temple was dedicated to Poseidon and Cleito and surrounded by a golden enclosure.
Atlas: the firstborn son of Poseidon and earth-born Cleito
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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.
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.
They were the sons of Poseidon, the god of the sea, and Cleito, born as five pairs of twins.
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.
Atlas was the firstborn son of Poseidon and Cleito, and the first king of Atlantis.
Poseidon falls in love with Cleito, the only daughter of Evenor, one of the earth-born first men of the island, and his wife Leucippe.
See Cleito and Poseidon for the parents.
Plato names ten sons of Poseidon and Cleito.
He marries a mortal woman named Cleito, and they have ten sons.
He makes rings of water and land around the central hill where Cleito lives.
Poseidon is the divine founder of Atlantis, and his ten sons with Cleito rule it.
Like Plato and Donnelly, he tells of the marriage to Cleito and the sons who became its rulers.
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.