|
|
| Line 31: |
Line 31: |
| # A journey from the interior of a country to the coast. | | # A journey from the interior of a country to the coast. |
| # (Rare) The presence of downward (drainage or katabatic) winds. | | # (Rare) The presence of downward (drainage or katabatic) winds. |
|
| |
| ----
| |
|
| |
| ===Selected Quotations===
| |
|
| |
| ''1923 — Georges Berguer''
| |
| "The ancient Greeks and the peoples of remote antiquity already knew of journeys of the soul, but these were often journeys to the infernal regions, descents into hell, catabases, with obstacles..."
| |
|
| |
| ''2009 — James Ker''
| |
| "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."
| |
|
| |
| ''1842 — Yale Literary Magazine''
| |
| "How did the man in the moon come down?... other obstacles lie in the way of this famous catabasis..."
| |
|
| |
|
| ---- | | ---- |