Remarks on the Lost City of Atlantis
Remarks on the Lost City of Atlantis
Over 11,000 years ago there existed an island nation located in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, populated by a noble and powerful race. The people of this land possessed great wealth thanks to the natural resources found throughout their island. The island was a center for trade and commerce. The rulers of this land held sway over the people and land of their own island and well into Europe and Africa. This was the island of Atlantis (Keyes page 1 of 4). Atlantis was one of many myths of Ancient Greece. These myths were an important aspect of the Ancient Greek culture, and each myth unravels a new story that has been told for centuries, true or untrue these tales are truly amazing, and the story of Atlantis was one of the best and well known of all the myths.
The original story starts at the very beginning of time when “ the great gods divided the Cosmos between them, Poseidon the lord of the Ocean took possession of a chain of islands stretching from Spain to Central America. The great god discovered that the people of the island were singularly handsome and intelligent, he found that the island was more beautiful than anywhere else in the world. Every leaf on every tree glistened as brilliantly as an emerald, and the rolling pasturelands were as sleep, and green as the waves of Summer Sea” (Jessie page 1 of 6). Poseidon had nonetheless discovered a perfect Utopia. During his exploration of his new island he was climbing the largest hill on the islands, and at the top he found the most beautiful woman he had ever seen, and her name was Cleito. The god fell in love with this woman and had 10 sons with her. There first born child was named Atlas and from this name he named his island Atlantis. All though Poseidon was very much in love with Cleito, he still had a very jealous and distrustful personality and decided to isolate her and protect her on his island by putting her on a hill in the center of Atlantis and digging three great moats around the grand hill. As the god’s son’s grew older he made all ten of them the kings of Atlantis and each responsible...