Anabasis

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Anabasis (from Greek ana = "upward", bainein = "to step or march") is an expedition from a coastline into the interior of a country. Anabase and Anabasis may also refer to:

History[edit]

Poetry and fiction[edit]

  • Anabase [fr], a 1924 poem by Saint-John Perse
  • Anabasis, a 1930 translation of Saint-John Perse's poem by T. S. Eliot
  • Anabasis, poem by Paul Celan, published 1963 in "Die Niemandsrose"
  • Anabasis, a 1994 novel by Ellen Gilchrist
  • Anabasis, a novel of Hellenistic Afghanistan and India by Geoffrey Storey. A work of historical fiction set in Bactria

Music[edit]

Nature[edit]

See also[edit]

  • Anabasii, couriers of antiquity
  • Katabasis, a trip from the interior down to the coast