title: Anabasis
text: # Anabasis
  
  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
  
  * Anabasis Alexandri (Anabasis of Alexander), a history of the campaigns of Alexander the Great by Greek historian Arrian
  * Anabasis (Xenophon), a history of the expedition of Cyrus the Younger by Greek writer Xenophon
  * Siberian Anabasis, a literary name for the Czechoslovak Legions' transit through Siberia during the Russian Civil War, in reference to the epic of Xenophon
  
  ## Poetry and fiction
  
  * 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
  
  * Anabasis, a fantasy music act on Waerloga Records
  * The Anabasis, an American progressive metal band featuring Ryo Okumoto
  * "Anabasis (Xenophontis)", a song from the album Killing with a Smile by Australian band Parkway Drive
  
  ## 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
  