
The Ultimate Atlantis Collection (Six-Book Edition)
Philosophy, Utopia, Occult History, and Adventure from the Lost ContinentBy Plato, Francis Bacon, Ignatius Donnelly, C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne, William Scott-ElliotLength39h 19m
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The Ultimate Atlantis Collection gathers six foundational meditations on the lost island of Atlantis, tracing its transformation from Platonic moral-political parable into a durable modern myth of catastrophe, hidden knowledge, and forgotten civilization. Across philosophical dialogue, Baconian utopian projection, speculative history, occult-inflected reconstruction, and adventure fiction, the volume reveals how a single imagined place can sustain radically different literary purposes. Its range makes Atlantis not merely a geographical enigma, but a lens for examining empire, scientific aspiration, social order, racialized theories of antiquity, and the allure of submerged origins. The collection brings together writers whose works span classical philosophy, early modern political thought, nineteenth-century alternative archaeology, and popular romance. Plato supplies the originating narrative framework; Bacon recasts ideal society through the language of discovery and experiment; Donnelly and Scott-Elliot extend Atlantis into ambitious historical speculation; and C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne dramatizes its imaginative afterlives. Read together, these distinct voices illuminate the cultural movements that repeatedly remade Atlantis to answer their own eras' anxieties and hopes. This edition is especially valuable for readers seeking a comparative introduction to Atlantis as an enduring literary and intellectual tradition. It offers an unusual opportunity to encounter competing modes of inquiry—allegory, utopia, pseudohistory, esotericism, and fiction—within one volume. Students and general readers alike will find in its internal dialogue a rich education in mythmaking, reception, and speculative thought.
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GenreSpirituality and Religion, Literary Classics
Length39 hrs 19 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 13, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Ancient Egyptian Literature (Annotated)
2Introduction and Analysis (pt. 1)
3Introduction and Analysis (pt. 2)
4Timateus (pt. 1)
5Timateus (pt. 2)
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6Critias
7Introduction and Analysis
8Persons of the Dialogue: Critias; Hermocrates; Timaeus; Socrates.
9New Atlantis (Francis Bacon)
10PART I. THE HISTORY OF ATLANTIS.
11CHAPTER I. THE PURPOSE OF THE BOOK
12CHAPTER II. PLATO'S HISTORY OF ATLANTIS
13CHAPTER III. THE PROBABILITIES OF PLATO'S STORY
14CHAPTER IV. WAS SUCH A CATASTROPHE POSSIBLE?
15CHAPTER V. THE TESTIMONY OF THE SEA
16CHAPTER VI. THE TESTIMONY OF THE FLORA AND FAUNA
17PART II. THE DELUGE.
18CHAPTER I. THE DESTRUCTION OF ATLANTIS DESCRIBED IN THE DELUGE LEGENDS
19CHAPTER II. THE DELUGE OF THE BIBLE
20CHAPTER III. THE DELUGE OF THE CHALDEANS
21CHAPTER IV. THE DELUGE LEGENDS OF OTHER NATIONS
22CHAPTER V. THE DELUGE LEGENDS OF AMERICA
23CHAPTER VI. SOME CONSIDERATION OF THE DELUGE LEGENDS
24PART III. THE CIVILIZATION OF THE OLD WORLD AND NEW COMPARED.
25CHAPTER I. CIVILIZATION AN INHERITANCE
26CHAPTER II. THE IDENTITY OF THE CIVILIZATIONS OF THE OLD WORLD AND THE NEW
27CHAPTER III. AMERICAN EVIDENCES OF INTERCOURSE WITH EUROPE OR ATLANTIS
28CHAPTER IV. CORROBORATING CIRCUMSTANCES
29CHAPTER V. THE QUESTION OF COMPLEXION
30CHAPTER VI. GENESIS CONTAINS A HISTORY OF ATLANTIS
31CHAPTER VII. THE: ORIGIN OF OUR ALPHABET
32CHAPTER VIII. THE BRONZE AGE IN EUROPE
33CHAPTER IX. ARTIFICIAL DEFORMATION OF THE SKULL
34PART IV. THE MYTHOLOGIES OF THE OLD WORLD A RECOLLECTION OF ATLANTIS.
35CHAPTER I. TRADITIONS OF ATLANTIS
36CHAPTER II. THE KINGS OF ATLANTIS BECOME THE GODS OF THE GREEKS
37CHAPTER III. THE GODS OF THE PHOENICIANS ALSO KINGS OF ATLANTIS
38CHAPTER IV. THE GOD ODIN, WODEN, OR WOTAN
39CHAPTER V. THE PYRAMID, THE CROSS, AND THE GARDEN OF EDEN
40CHAPTER VI. GOLD AND SILVER THE SACRED METALS OF ATLANTIS
41PART V. THE COLONIES OF ATLANTIS.
42CHAPTER I. THE CENTRAL AMERICAN AND MEXICAN COLONIES
43CHAPTER II. THE EGYPTIAN COLONY
44CHAPTER III. THE COLONIES OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY
45CHAPTER IV. THE IBERIAN COLONIES OF ATLANTIS
46CHAPTER V. THE PERUVIAN COLONY
47CHAPTER VI. THE AFRICAN COLONIES
48CHAPTER VII. THE IRISH COLONIES FROM ATLANTIS
49CHAPTER VIII. THE OLDEST SON OF NOAH
50CHAPTER IX. THE ANTIQUITY OF SOME OF OUR GREAT INVENTIONS