Anabasis
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The Greek term anabasis referred to an expedition from a coastline up into the interior of a country. The term katabasis referred to a trip from the interior down to the coast. So anabasis means "Expedition" or "The March Up Country" and carries the same connotation in Greek as it does in English. There are two classic texts with the name:
- Anabasis (Xenophon), by the Greek writer Xenophon (431–355 B.C.), 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 A.D.), about Alexander the Great (336–323 B.C.)
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.
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