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. Katabasis (from Greek κατα "down" βαινω "go" means in general a "descent" a journey downwards which can mean moving downhill a sinking 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 (431–360 BC), about the expedition of the Persian prince Cyrus the Younger against his brother King Artaxerxes II. This article is about the
- Anabasis Alexandri, by the Greek historian Arrian (92–175) is about Alexander the Great. Anabasis Alexandri, the Campaigns of Alexander by Arrian is the most important source on Alexander the Great.
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- Anabase (poetry), a poem by Saint-John Perse first published in French in 1924. Saint-John Perse (pseudonym of Alexis Léger, also Alexis Saint-Léger Léger) ( 31 May, 1887 &ndash 20 September, 1975 The poem was translated by T. S. Eliot with the title Anabasis. Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (September 26 1888 – January 4 1965 was a poet Dramatist, and Literary critic.
- Anabasis (genus) is also a genus of desert shrubs.
- Anabasii, couriers of antiquity. Anabasii, in antiquity were Couriers who travelled on Horseback or in Chariots quickly bringing messages and commands from elsewhere
- The "Siberian Anabasis" is a literary name for the march of the Czechoslovak Legions across Siberia during the Russian Civil War. Czechoslovak Legions ( Československé legie in Czech and Slovak were Czech and Slovak volunteer armed forces fighting together with the Entente powers Siberia (Сиби́рь Sibir) is the name given to the vast region constituting almost all of Northern Asia and for the most part currently serving The Russian Civil War (1917–1923 was a multi-party war that occurred within the former Russian Empire after the Russian provisional government collapsed The name tries to link their campaign to the epic of Xenophon.
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anabasis
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- A military march up-country, especially that of Cyrus the Younger into Asia.
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