Cleito (Earth-616)

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Cleito
Name	Cleito
Aliases	The Divine Mother, the Mother, Embodiment of the Illusion, Mother of All Things, the Urge to Be Enfleshed
Affiliation and Relationships
Affiliation	Fallen Stars
Relatives	Parents: Evenor (father); Leucippe (mother); Spouses: Neptune (estranged husband); Children: Adam (son); unidentified 10 kings of Atlantis (sons); Descendants: Abel, Cain, Seth (grandsons); Ted Sallis, Job Burke, the Men of Lineage (descendants) Family-in-Law: Eve (daughter-in-law, deceased); Lilith (alleged ex-daughter-in-law)
Marital Status	Married
Physical Characteristics
Gender	Female
Unusual Features	Rose bush branches instead of hair
Origin and Living Status
Origin	Fallen Star, Goddess
Living Status	Alive
Reality	Earth-616
Place of Birth	Nexus of All Realities
Personal Information
Identity	Secret
Citizenship	Pre-Cataclysmic Atlantean
Occupation	Goddess, Embodiment of the Illusion,; former ruler of pre-Cataclysmic Atlantis
Base of Operations	Formerly Inner Temple, Temple of Cleito, City of the Golden Gate, pre-Cataclysmic Atlantis
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Plato, J.M. DeMatteis, Liam Sharp
First	Man-Thing (Vol. 3) #7 (April, 1998) (Mentioned) Man-Thing (Vol. 3) #8 (May, 1998)
First	Man-Thing (Vol. 3) #7 (April, 1998) (Mentioned) Man-Thing (Vol. 3) #8 (May, 1998)

Notes

• Cleito is based on a figure from the Greek legend of Atlantis, as recorded in the dialogue Critias by Plato. Cleito was reportedly a mortal girl, daughter of Evenor and Leucippe. The god Poseidon fell in love with Cleito and took her as his mate. They had a number of mortal children together, which were granted the uninhabited island of Atlantis by Poseidon. The island was named after Cleito's firstborn son Atlas, who inherited the kingdom. All subsequent kings of Atlantis were reportedly male-line descendants of Atlas.
  • While Plato claimed to have learned the legend of Atlantis through the records of his ancestor Solon (c. 638–558 BC), who in turned heard it from the priests of Sais in Egypt, modern historians suspect that Plato himself invented the legend and its characters.

See Also

• 3 appearance(s) of Cleito (Earth-616)
• 2 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Cleito (Earth-616)
• 1 image(s) of Cleito (Earth-616)

Links and References

• Cleito on Wikipedia.org