Anabasis

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Anabasis (from Greek ana = "upward", bainein = "to step or march") 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, 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)

See also

• Anabasis, T. S. Eliot's English translation of the poem Anabase (by Saint-John Perse, first published in French in 1924)
• Anabasis, a fantasy music act on Waerloga records
• Anabasis, a 1994 novel by Ellen Gilchrist
• Anabasis (moth), a genus of snout moths in subfamily Phycitinae
• Anabasis (plant), a genus of desert shrubs in family Chenopodioideae
• Anabasis Investments, former name of Carolco Pictures
• Siberian Anabasis, a literary name for the Czechoslovak Legions' transit through Siberia during the Russian Civil War, in reference to the epic of Xenophon
• The Anabasis, an American progressive metal band featuring Ryo Okumoto
• Anabasii, couriers of antiquity
• Anabatic wind, a wind which blows up a steep slope or mountain side