katabasis
[kəˈtæbəsis]

n.

大败退，（军队的）撤退；

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Katabasis

• 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 psychology.

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Knowledge and Katabasis in Parmenides
To Hell with Ya: Katabasis in Hard‐Boiled Detective Fiction
Katabasis in Danielewski's House of Leaves and two other recent American Novels
Katabasis : eine tiefenpsychologische Studie zur Symbolik der Dichtungen Georg Trakls
Katabasis : eine tiefenpsychologische Studie zur Symbolik der Dichtungen Georg Trakls
Das Proömium des Parmenides und die "Katabasis"des Pythagoras
To Hell and Back: The Katabasis and the Impossibility of Epic in Derek Walcott’s Omeros
Bouncing Down to the Underworld: Classical Katabasis in the Ground beneath Her Feet