Anabasis

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Anabasis (from Greek ana = "upward", bainein = "go") is an expedition from a coastline up into the interior of a country. Katabasis, by contrast, is a trip from the interior down to the coast. Two classic texts are titled with "anabasis":

• Anabasis (Xenophon), by the Greek writer Xenophon (431–355 BC), about the expedition of Cyrus the Younger, a Persian prince, against his brother, King Artaxerxes II
• Anabasis Alexandri, by the Greek historian Arrian (86 – after 146 AD), about Alexander the Great (336–323 BC)

[edit] See also

• Anabatic wind, is a wind which blows up a steep slope or mountain side.
• Anabase (poetry), a poem by Saint-John Perse first published in French in 1924. The poem was translated by T. S. Eliot with the title Anabasis.
• Anabasis (genus) is also a genus of desert shrubs.
• Anabasii, couriers of antiquity.
• The "Siberian Anabasis" is a literary name for the march of the Czechoslovak Legions across Siberia during the Russian Civil War. The name tries to link their campaign to the epic of Xenophon.
• "Anabasis" is the name of a fantasy music act on Waerloga records

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