{"id":3027,"date":"2010-06-06T19:15:58","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T19:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/clieto\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T08:40:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T08:40:48","slug":"clieto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/clieto\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleito"},"content":{"rendered":"

C<\/strong>leito<\/strong> was the daughter of Evenor<\/a> and Leucippe [one writer has even sought to equate them with Eve and Lucifer!!]. Although Cleito was a mere mortal, she became the wife of Poseidon<\/a>, the founder of Atlantis. According to Plato Cleito gave birth to five pairs of twins<\/a>, of whom Atlas<\/a> was the first-born and was appointed as the primary ruler of Atlantis while his brothers reigned over the other nine kingdoms (or colonies?). In order to protect Cleito, Poseidon built a palace (Critias 113d) in the centre of Atlantis surrounded by the famous concentric rings<\/a> of land and water, which, according to some translations (including Jowett\u2019s) were so perfect that it was as if they had been created on a lathe. I find it odd that people who accept that that Poseidon was a mythological figure are not also prepared to accept his home as equally unreal. What I’m suggesting is that Plato’s description of the divine residence and its environs is just a literary invention and that it is an exercise in futility to look for an historical Atlantis that matches the architectural perfection depicted by Plato.<\/p>\n

The story of Atlantis is unconnected to the rest of Greek mythology<\/a> with the exception of references to Poseidon<\/a> and Atlas<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cleito was the daughter of Evenor and Leucippe [one writer has even sought to equate them with Eve and Lucifer!!]. Although Cleito was a mere mortal, she became the wife of Poseidon, the founder of Atlantis. According to Plato Cleito gave birth to five pairs of twins, of whom Atlas was the first-born and was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2259,693,6355,367,1844,1845,280],"class_list":["post-3027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atlantis","tag-benjamin-jowett","tag-cleito","tag-concentric-rings","tag-evenor","tag-leucippe","tag-poseidon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3027"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66036,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3027\/revisions\/66036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}