# Plato 1925: Critias

> Plato, 1925. 11 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The primary text: Plato's description of Atlantis, its rings of sea and land and their widths…

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# Critias

Plato, 1925. _Plato in Twelve Volumes, vol. 9_.

Plato's unfinished dialogue giving the fullest account of Atlantis: Poseidon's rings of sea and land around Cleito's hill (113c–e), the elephants (114e), the widths of the rings and the central island (115d–116a), the outer wall 50 stades beyond the largest ring (117e) and the great plain sheltered from the north (118a–e).

**Eye of the Sahara and Atlantis** **Primary source** BookChecked against the original0

## What it's used for here

The primary text: Plato's description of Atlantis, its rings of sea and land and their widths, the city wall, the plain, the mountains and the elephants (Critias 113c–118e).

## Cited by on this site 11 records

[Elephants, which Plato gives to Atlantis, are engraved on rocks in the Richat](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara/evidence/EVD0DCKT0R6AC4J/elephants-which-plato-gives-to-atlantis-are-engraved-on)

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[Herodotus's Atlantes are a Libyan people named after Mount Atlas, with no island and no flood](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara/evidence/EVD0DCPB8KZ8VPY/herodotuss-atlantes-are-a-libyan-people-named-after-mount)

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[Plato's date falls inside the African Humid Period, and streams were laying down gravels in the Richat across that span](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara/evidence/EVD0DCPAXJJMHT3/platos-date-falls-inside-the-african-humid-period-and)

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[Plato's ring widths add to 27 stades, about 5 km; 127 needs the city wall 50 stades beyond](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara/evidence/EVD0DCKTRCNSBQD/platos-ring-widths-add-to-27-stades-about-5-km-127-needs-the)

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[Plato's rings were belts of sea joined to the ocean by a channel, not a lake fed by rivers](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara/evidence/EVD0DCPAYMQ0ADF/platos-rings-were-belts-of-sea-joined-to-the-ocean-by-a)

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[The Richat's concentric rings resemble Plato's alternating belts of sea and land](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara/evidence/EVD0DCKSZVY6YJK/the-richats-concentric-rings-resemble-platos-alternating)

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[Uplands lie to the north of the structure and open ground to the south, as Plato's plain was sheltered from the north](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara/evidence/EVD0DCKT09DE770/uplands-lie-to-the-north-of-the-structure-and-open-ground-to)

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[Plato tells the Atlantis story in the Timaeus and Critias](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara/events/EVT0DCKQVJ8FJTK/plato-tells-the-atlantis-story-in-the-timaeus-and-critias)

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[Plato](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara/people/FIG0DCKQC9DWQBT/plato)

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[The Eye of the Sahara and Atlantis](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara)

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## Cite it

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Plato (1925). Critias. Plato in Twelve Volumes, vol. 9. https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0180:text=Criti.:section=113c
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