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Atlantis: A Select Bibliography

Allen, J. M. Atlantis: The Andes Solution: The Discovery of South America as the Legendary Continent of Atlantis. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.

Ashe, Geoffrey. Atlantis: Lost Lands, Ancient Wisdom. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1992.

Berlitz, Charles. Atlantis, The Eighth Continent. New York: Putnam, 1984.

____. Mystery of Atlantis. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1969.

de Boer, Jelle Zeilinga and Donald Theodore Sanders. Volcanoes in Human History: The Far-Reaching Effects of Major Eruptions. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002.

Bramwell, James. Lost Atlantis. London: Cobden-Sanderson, 1937.

Brennan, Herbie. The Atlantis Enigma. London: Piatkus, 2000.

Byrom, James. Lost Atlantis. San Bernardino, CA: Borgo Press, 1980.

Castleden, Rodney. Atlantis Destroyed. New York: Routledge, 1998.

____. Minoans: Life in Bronze Age Crete. New York: Routledge, 1990. [See index for “Thera” on page 209.].

Cayce, Edgar Evans. Mysteries of Atlantis Revisited. San Francisco, CA: Harper & Row, 1988.

Cayce, Hugh Lynn ed. Edgar Cayce on Atlantis. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1968.

Chapin, Henry. The Search For Atlantis. New York: Crowell-Collier Press, 1968.

Christopher, Kevin. “Atlantis: No Way, No How, No Where.” Skeptical Inquirer 11, no. 3 (September 2001).

Collins, Andrew. Gateway to Atlantis: The Search for a Source of a Lost Civilization. New York: Carroll and Graf, 2000.

De Camp, L. Sprague. Lost Continents: The Atlantis Theme in History, Science, and Literature. New York: Gnome Press, 1954.

Donnelly, Ignatius. Atlantis: The Antediluvian World. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1970.

Doumas, Christos. “The Minoan Eruption of the Santorini Volcano.” Antiquity 48, no. 190 (1974): 110-115.

____. Thera, Pompeii of the Ancient Aegean: Excavations at Akrotiri, 1967-79. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1983.

Dunbavin, Paul. Atlantis of the West: the Case for Britain’s Drowned Megalithic Civilization. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2003.

Ebon, Martin. Atlantis: The New Evidence. New York: New American Library, 1977.

Ellis, Richard. Imagining Atlantis. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.

Feder, Kenneth L. Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology. 5th ed. Boston, MA: McGraw Hill, 2006.

Forsyth, Phyllis Young. Atlantis: The Making of a Myth. Montreal, Canada: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1980. 

Galanopoulos, Angelos G. Atlantis: The Truth Behind the Legend. Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1969.

Gill, Christopher. "The Genre of the Atlantis Story.” Classical Philology 72, no. 4 (October 1977): 287-304.

Graham, J. Walter. The Palaces of Crete. Rev. ed. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1987. [For the possible identification of Atlantis as the Minoan civilization, see page 11.].

Hackforth, Reginald. “The Story of Atlantis: Its Purpose and Moral.” Classical Review 58 (1944): 7-9.

Hall, Manly Palmer. Atlantis: An Interpretation. Los Angeles, CA: Philosophical Research Society, 1976.

Heidel, William A. “A Suggestion Concerning Plato’s Atlantis.” Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 68 (1932-1933): 189-228.

Hope, Murry. Atlantis: Myth or Reality? London: Arkana, 1991.

James, Peter. The Sunken Kingdom: The Atlantis Mystery Solved. London: Pimlico, 1996.

Joseph, Frank. The Atlantis Encyclopedia. Franklin Lakes, NJ: New Page Books, 2005.

____. The Destruction of Atlantis. Olympia Fields, IL: Atlantis Research Publishers, 1987.

Luce, John Victor. The End of Atlantis: New Light on an Old Legend. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1969.

Manning, Stuart W. A Test of Time: The Volcano of Thera and the Chronology and History of the East Mediterranean in the Mid Second Millennium BC. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxbow Books, 1999.

Marinatos, Spyridon. “The Volcanic Destruction of Minoan Crete.” Antiquity 13 (1939): 425-439.

McMullen, David. Atlantis: The Missing Continent. New York: Contemporary Perspectives, 1977

Musgrove, Stephen W. Atlantis Found: The Ancient Mystery Solved. Charlotte, NC: Leslie, 1995.

Plato. Timaeus, Critias, Cleitophon, Menexenus, Epistles. Trans. R.G. Bury. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1929. [See “Timaeus,” pp. 41-43; and “Critias,” pp. 255-307.].

Ramage, Edwin, ed. Atlantis, Fact or Fiction? Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1978.

Rexine, John E. “Atlantis: Fact or Fantasy.” Classical Bulletin 51 (1974-1975): 49-53.

Rosenmeyer, Thomas G. “Plato’s Atlantis Myth: Timaeus or Critias.” Phoenix (1956): 163-72.

Stemman, Roy. Atlantis and the Lost Lands. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1977.

Thera and the Aegean World. 3 vols. in 5 parts. London: Thera Foundation, 1978-1990.

Sullivan, Robert. Atlantis Rising: The True Story of a Submerged Land Yesterday and Today. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.

Vitaliano, Dorothy B. “Atlantis: A Review Essay.” Journal of the Folklore Institute 8 (1971): 68-76.

____. Legends of the Earth: Their Geologic Origins. Bloomington, IL: Indiana University Press, 1973.

Wilson, Colin. From Atlantis to the Sphinx. New York: Fromm International, 1997.

Wilson, Colin and Rand Flem-Ath. The Atlantis Blueprint: Unlocking the Ancient Mysteries of a Long-Lost Civilization. New York: Delacorte Press, 2001.

Wingate, Richard. Lost Outpost of Atlantis. New York: Everest House, 1980.

Zangger, Eberhard. The Flood from Heaven: Deciphering the Atlantis Legend. New York: William Morrow & Company, 1992.

Zdenek, Kukal. Atlantis in the Light of Modern Research. Translated by C. Emiliani. New York: Elsevier, 1984.

Zink, David. The Stones of Atlantis. London: W.H. Allen, 1978.

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Published: Mon Jan 28 11:50:05 EST 2019