Greece and Rome · Plato, Critias 109b–121c
Atlantis: gods who divided the earth
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But when the divine portion began to fade away, and became diluted too often and too much with the mortal admixture, and the human nature got the upper hand, they then, being unable to bear their fortune, behaved unseemly.
Translation: Jowett, 1871 · About the translator
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Read it literally
The gods split the earth by lot, Poseidon fathers kings with a mortal woman, and the bloodline weakens with each generation until the island is destroyed. The Watcher story told in Greek.
