Atlantis

He built it for love. Poseidon chose the rocky island in the outer ocean because of Cleito, a farmer's daughter on its central mountain who looked at a god and asked him not for magnificence but for enough. He gave her magnificence anyway.
The ring-canals. The golden temple. The twin springs, one hot and one cold. The most extraordinary island the world had ever seen, built by a sea-god's hands from the material of the ocean floor, given to a woman who had asked for something smaller.
ATLANTI...