About this book
Ignatius Loyola Donnelly’s Atlantis: The Antediluvian World reopens the mystery of a lost civilization with a bold, Victorian-era case that Atlantis lies at the root of human history. First published in 1882 by the Minnesota populist-turned-writer, Donnelly treats Plato’s account as more than myth and marshals comparative mythology, linguistics, archaeology, geology, art, and religious tradition to argue that Egypt, the Americas, and other ancient cultures descend from a single antediluvian source.
Part history and part speculative investigation, the book blends scholarly curiosity with imaginative reconstruction, tracing flood myths, architectural echoes, and shared symbols across continents. Donnelly’s mix of evidence and conjecture helped crystallize many modern ideas about Atlantis—its advanced technology, moral dramas, and catastrophic end—while reflecting 19th-century intellectual tastes and the era’s enthusiasm for grand syntheses of science and legend.
Ideal for listeners fascinated by myths and legends, alternative history, or the history of ideas, this audiobook offers a rich, provocative journey into how one classic work shaped our collective image of a sunken world. Fans of historical speculation, Victorian nonfiction, and cultural archaeology will find it a compelling listen.
