katabasis

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A mytheme or trope in which the hero embarks on a journey to the underworld.

   “The logic of the underworld is most on show in the Phaedra and the Hercules [of Seneca], which feature the returns of Theseus and Hercules from their katabases.”

2. isim Any journey downwards or fall.

   “How did the man in the moon come down? The distance between the earth and moon is by no means inconsiderable, and other obstacles “too tedious to mention,” lie in the way of this famous Catabasis, which his lunar majesty is declared to have performed.”

3. isim A retreat, especially a military one.

   “2dly, That of a great military expedition, offering the same romantic features[…]which mark[…]the Russian anabasis and katabasis of Napoleon.”

4. isim A journey from the interior of a country to the coast.

   “So the core of the work is really a katabasis, detailing the heroic slog through the cold and snows of upper Iraq, Kurdistan, and Armenia to the safety of the Black Sea, ending with a parabasis, along the southern coast of the sea back toward Byzantium and Europe.”

5. isim The presence of downward (drainage or katabatic) winds.

   “Sasttrugi permit the identification of regions of developed katabasis and their direction, and therefore the general relief features in certain Antarctic regions.”