Plato Critias 109b (Loeb)

   The progress of the history will unfold the various nations of barbaric tribes and all the Hellenic nations which then existed, the sequel of our story, when it is, as it were, unrolled, will disclose what happened in each locality; but I must describe first of all the
Athenians of that day, and their enemies who fought with them, and then the respective powers and governments of the two kingdoms. 
   And of these two we must give the priority in our account to the state of Athens.
   [109b] In the days of old, the Gods were taking over by lot the whole earth according to its regions, -- not according to the results of strife (between Poseidon and Athena): for it would not be reasonable to suppose that the Gods were ignorant of their own several rights, nor yet that they attempted to obtain for themselves by means of strife that which more properly belonged to others. 

   So by just allotments the Gods received each one his own, and they settled their countries; and when they had thus settled them, they tended us up, even as shepherds [109c] tend their flocks, to be their cattle and nurslings; excepting only that they did not use blows or bodily force, as shepherds do, but governed us like pilots from the stern of the vessel, which is an easy way of guiding animals, holding our souls by the rudder of persuasion according to their own pleasure; -- thus did they guide all mortal creatures.
   Now in other regions others of the Gods had their allotments and ordered the affairs, but inasmuch as Hephaestus and Athena were of a like nature, being born of the same father, and agreeing, moreover, in their love of wisdom and of craftsmanship, both obtained as their common portion this land, which was naturally adapted for wisdom and virtue; and there they implanted brave children of the soil, and put into their minds the order of government; their names are preserved, but their actions have disappeared by reason of the destruction of those who received the tradition, and the lapse of ages. 

   Now the city in those days was arranged on this wise.  In the first place the Acropolis was not as now. 
   For the fact is that a single night of excessive rain washed away the earth and laid bare the rock; at the same time there were earthquakes, and then occurred the extraordinary inundation, which was the third before the great destruction of Deucalion. 
   But in primitive times the hill of the Acropolis extended to the Eridanus and Ilissus, and included the Pnyx on one side, and the Lycabettus as a boundary on the opposite side to the Pnyx, and was all well covered with soil, and level at the top, except in one or two places.
   [112b] Outside the Acropolis and under the sides of the hill there dwelt artisans, and by such of the husbandmen as had their farms close by; but on the topmost part only the military class by itself had its dwellings round about the temple of Athena and Hephaestus, surrounding themselves with a single ring-fencelike the garden of a single house. 
   On the north side of it they had established their public dwellings and winter mess-rooms, and all the arrangements in the way of buildings which were required for the community life