Atlantis: The Antediluvian World (1882)

By Ignatius Donnelly (1831 - 1901).

No pagenumbers | 2021, original print in 1882 | Paperback | Index | Harper & Brothers, New York | ISBN: 9781722432232.

Atlantis: The Antediluvian World is a book published in 1882 by Minnesota populist potlitician Ignatius L. Connelly, who was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1831. Donnelly considered Plato's account of Atlantis as largely factual and attempted to establish that all known ancient civilizations were descended from this lost land. many of its theories are the source of many modern0day concepts about Atlantis, including these: the civilization and technology beyond its time, the origins of all present races and civilizations, and a civil war between good and evil. Much of Donnelly's scholarship, especially with regard to Atlantis as an explanation for similarities between ancient civilizations of the Old and New Worlds, was inspired by the publications of Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg and the fieldwork of Augustus Le Plongeon in the Yucatan.