catabasis

See also: catábasis

English

Noun

catabasis (countable and uncountable, plural catabases)

1. Alternative spelling of katabasis
   • 1923, Georges Berguer, translated by E. S. Brooks and Van Wyck Brooks, Some aspects of the life of Jesus from the psychological and psycho-analytic point of view, page 58:

     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, such as encounters with various monsters, menaces of all sorts, the crossing of the bridge of the dead or the passage of mysterious rivers on foot or on horseback.

   • 2007, Victoria Adamenko, Victoria Bowles, Neo-mythologism in Music, page 101:

     Figure 37 also demonstrates the use of catabasis, or descending motion, in the parts for trumpets, pianos, and low strings.

   • 2019, Gregory L. Ulmer, KONSULT: Theopraxesis, page 83:

     The Inferno is one of the most famous examples of catabasis in the Western Tradition.