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Atlantis: The Antedeluvian World

by Ignatius Donnelly & Ignatius L. Donnelly

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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"Atlantis: The Antediluvian World" by Ignatius Donnelly is a pseudoarchaeological book published in 1882. Donnelly argues that Plato's Atlantis was real and that all ancient civilizations descended from this lost continent. He presents thirteen hypotheses claiming Atlantis was humanity's cradle of civilization, linking ancient myths, languages, and technologies across continents. The work blends catastrophic legends with theories about racial origins, reflecting late nineteenth-century American anxieties about industrialization and decline while profoundly shaping modern Atlantis mythology. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ancient religions, animism, and ritual, Lost civilizations and anomalous archaeology, Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends, and Theosophy, Anthroposophy, and New Thought.

  • Theosophy, Anthroposophy, and New Thought

    A contributing source assigned this topic during controlled cataloging, but the exact triggering term is not present in the merged metadata.

  • Lost civilizations and anomalous archaeology

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and project-gutenberg matched “Atlantis” and “atlantis”. Retained metadata contains “Atlantis” in the title, “Atlantis” in the description, “lost continent” in the description, and 2 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Atlantis”· via Internet Archive
    • “atlantis”· via Project Gutenberg
    • “Atlantis”· in title
    • “Atlantis”· in description
    • “lost continent”· in description
    • “Atlantis”· in subject
  • Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends

    Controlled discovery queries from project-gutenberg matched “folklore” and “mythology”. Retained metadata contains “Legends” in the description and “Mythology” in the description.

    • “folklore”· via Project Gutenberg
    • “mythology”· via Project Gutenberg
    • “Legends”· in description
    • “Mythology”· in description
  • Ancient religions, animism, and ritual

    A contributing source assigned this topic during controlled cataloging, but the exact triggering term is not present in the merged metadata.

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Editions

2 editions cataloged here.

Internet Archive unrestricted pre-1900 PDF scan

1882-01-01T00:00:00Z—English—Public digitized item

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2003-05-01Project GutenbergEnglish—Public domain (USA)

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