Atlantis: The Antedeluvian World (Annotated)

First published in 1882, Atlantis: The Antediluvian World advances a sweeping thesis: that Plato's island was a real prehistoric civilization whose cultural radiance explains parallels in myth, architecture, language, and ritual across the ancient world. Donnelly's prose is encyclopedic, forensic, and unabashedly conjectural, assembling geology, comparative mythology, philology, and antiquarian re...