Anabasis
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Template:Wiktionary The Greek term anabasis referred to an expedition from a coastline into the interior of a country. The term katabasis referred to a trip from the interior to the coast. There are two classic texts with the name:
- Anabasis (Xenophon) by the Greek writer Xenophon (431–360 BC)
- Anabasis Alexandri, by the Roman historian Arrian (92–175) who wrote in Greek, is about Alexander the Great
- Anabase (poetry), a book of poems by Saint-John Perse in French which was translated by T.S. Eliot
- Anabasis (genus) is also a genus of desert shrubs
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