The oligarchs, led by Critias, one of the " overseers " and a former exile, summoned a Spartan garrison to ensure their safety and then initiated a reign of terror, executing any men who they thought might possess sufficient initiative or a large enough following to effectively challenge them.

Theramenes, imitating a popular drinking game in which the drinker toasted a loved one as he finished his cup, downed the poison and then flung the dregs to the floor, exclaiming " Here's to the health of my beloved Critias!

After the fall of Athens to the Spartans, Critias, as one of the Thirty Tyrants, blacklisted many of its citizens.

He also appears as one of the speakers in Plato's Critias.

Atlantis ( in Greek,, " island of Atlas ") is a legendary island first mentioned in Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias, written about 360 BC.

Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias, written in 360 BC, contain the earliest references to Atlantis.

Plato's account of Atlantis may have also inspired parodic imitation: writing only a few decades after the Timaeus and Critias, the historian Theopompus of Chios wrote of a land beyond the ocean known as Meropis.

According to Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias, he visited Neith's temple at Sais and received from the priests there an account of the history of Atlantis.

Plato's Timaeus and Critias state that in the temple of Neith at Sais, there were secret halls containing historical records which had been kept for 9, 000 years.

Correcting Plato's " tenfold error ", a mistranslation from Egyptian to Greek, the document pinpoints the location of Atlantis in the Mediterranean, 300 miles from Greece, instead of 3000 as mentioned in the dialogue Critias.

Inspiration for the mythology in the game, such as the description of the city and the appearance of the metal orichalcum, was primarily drawn from Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias, and from Ignatius Loyola Donnelly's book Atlantis: The Antediluvian World that revived interest in the myth during the nineteenth century.

Evola cites Plato's description of the fall of Atlantis by Atlantean miscegenation with humankind ( Critias, 110c ; 120d-e ; 121a-b ) and the biblical myth of the benei elohim, the Sons of God catastrophically mixing with the " daughters of men " ( Genesis 6: 4-13 ) as support for his esoteric, Aryanist anthropogenesis.

Critias appears as a character in Plato's dialogues Charmides and Protagoras, and, according to Diogenes Laërtius, was Plato's great-uncle.

The Critias character in Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias is often identified as the son of Callaeschrus – but not by Plato.

In Plato's Timaeus, Critias tells the story of Solon's visit to Egypt shortly after Solon was elected archon in 594 B. C.

Plato's Atlantis described in Timaeus and Critias ( dialogue ) | Critias

In another possible echo of this archaic association, the chief ritual of Atlantis, according to Plato's Critias, was a nocturnal horse-sacrifice offered to Poseidon by the kings of the imagined island power.

In Plato's Timaeus and Critias ( around 395 B. C., 200 years after the visit by the Greek Legislator Solon ), Sais is the city in which Solon ( Solon visited Egypt in 590 B. C.

It is possible to see evidence of Greek knowledge of landscape portrayal in Plato's Critias ( 107b – 108b ): ... and if we look at the portraiture of divine and of human bodies as executed by painters, in respect of the ease or difficulty with which they succeed in imitating their subjects in the opinion of onlookers, we shall notice in the first place that as regards the earth and mountains and rivers and woods and the whole of heaven, with the things that exist and move therein, we are content if a man is able to represent them with even a small degree of likeness ...

* Michael Vickers, " Alcibiades and Critias in the Gorgias: Plato's ' fine satire '," Dialogues d ' Histoire Ancienne, 20, 2 ( 1994 ), 85 – 112.

On the other hand, this obviously too long time span between Solon and Critias would not be the only anachronism in Plato's work.

Plato's Atlantis described in Timaeus ( dialogue ) | Timaeus and Critias

According to the account given by Plato's character Critias, Evenor was among the original inhabitants of Atlantis born from the earth.

This hypothesis requires skepticism about what is usually regarded as the only fairly certain result of Platonic stylometry, Plato's marked tendency to avoid hiatus in the six dialogues widely believed to have been composed in the period to which Denyer assigns First Alcibiades ( Timaeus, Critias, Sophist, Statesman, Philebus, and Laws ).

The four persons appearing in those two dialogues are the politicians Critias and Hermocrates as well as the philosophers Socrates and Timaeus of Locri, although only Critias speaks of Atlantis.

* Plato writes the dialogues Timaeus and Critias, first mentioning Atlantis.

Plato ( 428-348 BCE ) told of the disappearance of a vast island and its powerful civilization, the Atlanteans, in two of his dialogues, Critias and Timaeus.

Donnelly suggested that Atlantis, whose story was told by Plato in the dialogues of Timaeus and Critias, had been destroyed during the same event remembered in the Bible as the Great Flood.

Given the old age of the Critias in these two dialogues, he may be the grandfather of the son of Callaeschrus.

Critias is the second of a projected trilogy of dialogues, preceded by Timaeus and followed by Hermocrates, though the latter was possibly never written and Critias was left incomplete.

The elder Critias is unknown to have achieved any personal distinction, and since he died long before Plato published the Timaeus and Critias, it would have made no sense for Plato to choose a statesman to appear in these dialogues, who was practically unknown and thus uninteresting to his contemporaries.

Location hypotheses of Atlantis are various proposed real-world settings for the legendary island of Atlantis, ( Ἀτλαντὶς νῆσος ) described as a lost civilization mentioned in Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias, written about 360 B. C.

In these dialogues, a character named Critias claims that an island called Atlantis was swallowed by the sea about 9, 200 years previously.

Orichalcum is a metal mentioned in several ancient writings, most notably the story of Atlantis as recounted in the Critias dialogue, recorded by Plato.

Critias proceeds to tell the story of Solon's journey to Egypt where he hears the story of Atlantis, and how Athens used to be an ideal state that subsequently waged war against Atlantis ( 25a ).

The latter group argues that there is too much distance of time between the oligarch Critias ( 460 – 403 BC ) and Solon ( 638 – 558 BC ), the famous lawmaker, who supposedly brought the Atlantis story from Egypt to Greece.

According to Plato, Solon told the story to the grandfather of the Critias appearing in this dialogue, who was also named Critias, and who retold the story to his grandson.

Thus they assume that it is the tyrant's grandfather who appears in both Timaeus and Critias, and his own grandfather, who was told the Atlantis story by Solon.

According to Critias, the Hellenic gods of old divided the land so that each god might own a lot ; Poseidon was appropriately, and to his liking, bequeathed the island of Atlantis.

Critias then goes into a great deal of detail in describing the island of Atlantis and the Temple to Poseidon and Cleito on the island, and refers to the legendary metal orichalcum.

In the Critias, a work of the Greek philosopher Plato, a man named Evenor is described as the ancestor of the kings who ruled the lengendary island of Atlantis.

The eponymously named ninth chapter, which takes place in Atlantis, though primarily inspired by Plato's dialogue Critias, also borrows such details from C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne's novel The Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis ( 1899 ), such as the presence of mammoths, dinosaurs, and a volcanic mountain on the island.