Atlantis, the Antediluvian World by Ignatius Donnelly [1882]

Part I

• Chapter I : The Purpose of the Book.
• Chapter II : Plato's History of Atlantis.
• Chapter III : The Probabilities of Plato's Story.
• Chapter IV : Was Such a Catastrophe Possible?
• Chapter V : The Testimony of the Sea.
• Chapter VI : The Testimony of the Flora and Fauna.

Part II

• Chapter I : The Destruction of Atlantis Described in the Deluge Legends.
• Chapter II : The Deluge of the Bible
• Chapter III : The Deluge of the Chaldeans.
• Chapter IV : The Deluge Legends of Other Nations.
• Chapter V : The Deluge Legends of America.
• Chapter VI : Some Consideration of the Deluge Legends.

Part III

• Chapter I : Civilization an Inheritance.
• Chapter II : The Identity of the Civilizations of the Old World and the New
• Chapter III : American Evidences of Intercourse with Europe or Atlantis.
• Chapter IV : Corroborating Circumstances.
• Chapter V : The Question of Complexion.
• Chapter VI : Genesis Contains a History of Atlantis
• Chapter VII : The Origin of Our Alphabet
• Chapter VIII : The Bronze Age in Europe.
• Chapter IX : Artificial Deformation of the Skull.

Part IV

• Chapter I : Traditions of Atlantis.
• Chapter II : The Kings of Atlantis Become the Gods of the Greeks.
• Chapter III : The Gods of the Phoenicians Also Kings of Atlantis.
• Chapter IV : The God Odin, Woden, or Wotan.
• Chapter V : The Pyramid, The Cross, and The Garden of Eden.
• Chapter VI : Gold and Silver the Sacred Metals of Atlantis.

Part V

• Chapter I : The Central American and Mexican Colonies.
• Chapter II : The Egyptian Colony.
• Chapter III : The Colonies of the Mississippi Valley
• Chapter IV : The Iberian Colonies of Atlantis
• Chapter V : The Peruvian Colony.
• Chapter VI : The African Colonies.
• Chapter VII : The Irish Colonies From Atlantis.
• Chapter VIII : The Oldest Son of Noah.
• Chapter IX : The Antiquity of Some of Our Great Inventions.
• Chapter X : The Aryan Colonies From Atlantis.
• Chapter XI : Atlantis Reconstructed.

Scanned at sacred-texts , November 2000. J. B. Hare, redactor. This text is in the public domain. This file may be used for any non-commercial purpose, provided this notice of attribution is left intact.

The world has made such comet-like advance Lately on science, we may almost hope, Before we die of sheer decay, to learn Something about our infancy; when lived That great, original, broad-eyed, sunken race, Whose knowledge, like the sea-sustaining rocks, Hath formed the base of this world's fluctuous lore

FESTUS