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. Anabase and Anabasis may also refer to:

Art, entertainment, and media

Literature

• Anabase (1924), a poem by Saint-John Perse

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

• Anabasis (1930), T. S. Eliot's English translation of Perse's poem, also translated in 1970 by Roger Little
• Anabasis (1994), a novel by Ellen Gilchrist

Music

Groups

• Anabasis, a fantasy music act on Waerloga records
• The Anabasis, an American progressive metal band featuring Ryo Okumoto

Songs

• Anasasis (Xenophontis), a song from Australian band Parkway Drive's debut album Killing with a Smile

Enterprises

• Anabasis Investments, former name of Carolco Pictures

History and military

• Siberian Anabasis, a literary name for the Czechoslovak Legions' transit through Siberia during the Russian Civil War, in reference to the epic of Xenophon

Nature

• Anabasis (moth), a genus of snout moths in the family Pyralidae
• Anabasis (plant), a genus of desert shrubs in family Chenopodioideae
• Anabatic wind, a wind which blows up a steep slope or mountain side

See also

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