Katabasis (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun, plural ka·tab·a·ses [kuh-tab-uh-seez]. /kəˈtæb əˌsiz/.
  1. a 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.
  2. a retreat, especially a military retreat.
noun plural -ses (-ˌsiːz)
  1. the retreat of the Greek mercenaries of Cyrus the Younger, after his death at Cunaxa, from the Euphrates to the Black Sea in 401–400 bc under the leadership of Xenophon: recounted in his Anabasis
  2. a retreat
Katabasis (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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