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ental-drift schools; the Condwanaland and Continental Drivt theories; mountain-building cycles and their causes; the great floods and earthquakes.

VIII. THE SILVERY KINGDOM. Identifications of Atlantis with various former places and cultures: Atlantis in North Africa, in Crete, in Tartessos (in Spain); Atlantis and Homer's Scheria.

IX. THE AUTHOR OF ATLANTIS. The personality and outlook of Plato; the geographical and historical knowledge of his time; his possible sources; the Homeric Question; the growth of Greek geography from Homer to Plato. Atlantis pioneer science-fiction story embodying a political allegory, drawing upon Crete,Tertessos, Carthage, Babylonian, astrology, and several other contemporary sources.

X. THE LAND OF HEART'S DESIRE. Atlantis as a Utopian romance; the nature of myths and legends; Euberism; Plato and the Lycurgan system in Sparta; other Utopians - Iambulos, More, Bacon, Harrington, Wells, etc.; various uses of the Atlantis theme.

XI. LOST CONTINENTS IN STORY. Atlantism in poetry and fiction; the early references by Verne, Oliver, etc.; the various groups of lost-continent novels: the undersea-dome kind, the racial-memory or time-travel type, the occult Atlantis novel, the Shaver hoax. Conclusions.

APPENDIS A. Classical texts having to do with theories of Atlantis.. Translations from Homer, Hanne, Pindar, Herodotus, Thucydies, Plato, Pliny, etc.

APPENDIS B. Plato's family tree, according to various authorities.

APPENDIX C. List of interpreters of Plato's Atlantis and their interpretations.

APPENDIX D. Table of geological time showing mountain - building periods. 

NOTES, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX.

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1 ental-drift schools; the Condwanaland and Continental Drivt theories; mountain-building cycles and their causes; the great floods and earthquakes. VIII. THE SILVERY KINGDOM. Identifications of Atlantis with various former places and cultures: Atlantis in North Africa, in Crete, in Tartessos (in Spain); Atlantis and Homer's Scheria. IX. THE AUTHOR OF ATLANTIS. The personality and outlook of Plato; the geographical and historical knowledge of his time; his possible sources; the Homeric Question; the growth of Greek geography from Homer to Plato. Atlantis pioneer science-fiction story embodying a political allegory, drawing upon Crete,Tertessos, Carthage, Babylonian, astrology, and several other contemporary sources. X. THE LAND OF HEART'S DESIRE. Atlantis as a Utopian romance; the nature of myths and legends; Euberism; Plato and the Lycurgan system in Sparta; other Utopians - Iambulos, More, Bacon, Harrington, Wells, etc.; various uses of the Atlantis theme. XI. LOST CONTINENTS IN STORY. Atlantism in poetry and fiction; the early references by Verne, Oliver, etc.; the various groups of lost-continent novels: the undersea-dome kind, the racial-memory or time-travel type, the occult Atlantis novel, the Shaver hoax. Conclusions. APPENDIS A. Classical texts having to do with theories of Atlantis.. Translations from Homer, Hanne, Pindar, Herodotus, Thucydies, Plato, Pliny, etc. APPENDIS B. Plato's family tree, according to various authorities. APPENDIX C. List of interpreters of Plato's Atlantis and their interpretations. APPENDIX D. Table of geological time showing mountain - building periods. NOTES, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX.