In the canon
Critias
- Form
- Form Philosophy
- Year
- Year 360 BCE
- Originally in
- Originally in Ancient Greek
- Pages
- Pages 40
Orichalcum, a metal that sparkled like fire and that nobody since has been able to name for certain, sheathed the walls of Poseidon's temple at the island's heart. Every Atlantis dreamed since has come out of these pages, and Plato builds his with a surveyor's patience: the concentric rings of sea and land, the canal cut to the ocean, the hot and the cold springs, the ten kings who hunted the sacred bulls with staves and nooses and swore their oaths standing in the blood.
an island greater in extent than Libya and Asia
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