Ten (Earth-616)

The Ten
Name	The Ten
Aliases	The Ten Kings of Old
Members
Leader(s)	Cleito (overseer)
Current Member(s)	Ten unnamed sons and kings of Atlantis
Affiliation and Identity
Affiliation	Atlantis
Allies	Cleito, Evenor
Origin and Status
Origin	Sons of Cleito and Poseidon; Gods, Ten first kings of Atlantis
Status	Defunct
Reality	Earth-616
Base of Operations	Ten unnamed cities, ten unnamed provinces/kingdoms, Atlantis
Place of Formation	Atlantis
Place of Dissolution	Ten unnamed cities, ten unnamed provinces/kingdoms, Atlantis
Creators and Appearances
Creators	J.M. DeMatteis, Liam Sharp
First	Man-Thing (Vol. 3) #7 (April, 1998) (Mentioned)
First	Man-Thing (Vol. 3) #7 (April, 1998) (Mentioned)

History

The Ten were the sons of Cleito (daughter of Leucippe and Evenor), and of Poseidon, god of the seas, who had claimed the patronage of Atlantis.

The Ten were the ten first Atlantean kings, ten gods ruling their provinces and overseen by their mother-goddess Cleito from the City of the Golden Gate. The Ten were known in legends as "crowned saints". In this golden age, Atlantis was not a single but ten kingdom, with the City of the Golden Gate as their capital. Evenor was one of the autochthons, primeval quasi-deities, "offspring of the soil"), which were said to have helped the land of Atlantis by their presence. The Ten ruled in the centuries between the Age of Kull (18,500 BC) and the Great Cataclysm (18,000 BC).

Notes

• The sons of Cleito and Poseidon were mentioned in Critias by Plato, including Atlas, King of Atlantis, only mentioned as a great king of Atlantis in Atlas' profile's in Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z Update #1, but not as son of Cleito and Poseidon.

Trivia

• Though being known as the ten first kings of Atlantis, others were known before them, including Om-Ra who ruled circa 18,500 BC.

See Also

• 2 appearance(s) of Ten (Earth-616)
• 1 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Ten (Earth-616)