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Katabasis logo #10101) Greek underworld
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Katabasis

Katabasis logo #21000 Katabasis, or catabasis, (from Greek κατὰ, `down` βαίνω `go`) is a descent of some type, such as moving downhill, or the sinking of the winds or sun, a military retreat, or a trip to the underworld or a trip from the interior of a country down to the coast. There exist multiple related meanings in poetry, rhetoric, and modern psychol...
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katabasis

katabasis logo #22641going down; military retreat
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Katabasis

Katabasis logo #10135(Greek) going underneath; descent to the Underworld included in literature; many epics include a katabasis at some point; Homer includes a katabasis in the Odyssey and Vergil includes one in Book 6 of the Aeneid.
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katabasis

katabasis logo #21199a march from the interior of a country to the coast, as that of the 10,000 Greeks after their defeat and the death of Cyrus the Younger at Cunaxa. · a retreat, esp. a military retreat. Cf. anabasis.
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