About “Atlantis: The Antediluvian World”
Atlantis: The Antediluvian World is a pseudoarchaeological book published in 1882 by Ignatius L. Donnelly, a Minnesota populist politician. The book presents Plato's story of Atlantis as largely true and proposes that all ancient civilizations originated from this lost land. Donnelly's theory is based on hyperdiffusionism, the idea that culture and knowledge spread from a single original source. The work is a non-fiction exploration of ancient history through this controversial lens. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
Book details
- Published
- 1882