corrupt as: ...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, and to him who had an eye to see grew visibly debased, for they were losing the fairest of their precious gifts; but to those who had no eye to see the true happiness, they appeared glorious and blessed at the very time when they were full of avarice and unrighteous power. Critias then says that Zeus, the god of gods, seeing the corruption of the Atlanteans, determined to chastise them. Zeus begins to speak; but what he says, and everything that follows in the Critias, remains nonextant. See also Lost lands Citations References Primary sources Secondary sources External links Translations of the Critias dialogue by Benjamin Jowett can be found at: Internet Sacred Texts Archive in plain text Project Gutenberg in plain text MIT classics subdomain in html Books about Atlantis Dialogues of Plato