Continuing this emotional paradox across the room, the four figures of "Katabasis" flail and tug at each other with delight or anger.
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Finally, Rachael K. Jones's novella EVERY RIVER RUNS TO SALT (Fireside Fiction, paper, $9.99) is a beautiful story of friendship, love and katabasis set in a version of Athens, Ga., where a woman can have a glacier for an ancestor and steal an ocean on a whim.
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Pilar Serrano allows the term katabasis to encompass brief or chronic stays in the underworld, including those of Lazarus, and Castor and Pollux. In this case, however, the katabasis must be followed by an anabasis (a going or marching up) in order to be considered a true katabasis instead of a death.
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In poetry and rhetoric, the term katabasis refers to a "gradual descending" of emphasis on a theme within a sentence or paragraph, while anabasis refers to a gradual ascending in emphasis. John Freccero notes, "In the ancient world, [the] descent in search of understanding was known as katabasis", thus endowing mythic and poetic accounts of katabasis with a symbolic significance.
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The two heroes also make a katabasis into the Underworld to retrieve information from the deceased.
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Clauss, J. J.(2008). Hercules Unchained: Contaminatio, Nostos, Katabasis, and the Surreal. Arethusa 41(1), 51-66. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Ovid also briefly mentions the katabasis of Hercules in book 7. Ovid is telling the etiological story of Medea's poison for Theseus. When Hercules traveled to the Underworld to capture Cerberus as one of his 12 Labours, Cerberus spread white foam from his mouths, which grew poisonous plants. The katabasis of Orpheus in book 10 is the last major inclusion of the theme by Ovid in the Metamorphoses.
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The Descent of Perithous (, Peirithou katabasis) is a fragmentary epic poem that was ascribed to Hesiod by the 2nd-century CE geographer Pausanias.Paus. 9.31.5. Descent of Perithous is the title used in the standard edition of the text (), but no exact title is attested from antiquity. Pausanias instead describes the work's content in listing Hesiod's poems and their topics: "how Theseus together with Perithous descended to Hades" (). prefers Descent of Peirithous to Hades; gives Katabasis of Theseus and Peithrous.
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Odysseus ends his visit with Heracles, who asks about Odysseus' intention in Hades. Odysseus begins to get fearful as he waits for more heroes and leaves. The Cumaean Sibyl leads Aeneas to the Underworld for his katabasis in the Aeneid.
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Later, in Hell, Niobe must again cross a river, and wonders if it might be the actual Lethe. In Valeer Damen’s novel KATABASIS, one of the main characters has to find and cross the river Lethe as a step in the process of entering the afterlife. “‘There is the plain. Transit. Like a battlefield.
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Katabasis or catabasis (, from "down" and "go") is a descent of some type, such as moving downhill, the sinking of the winds or sun, a military retreat, a trip to the underworld, or a trip from the interior of a country down to the coast. The term has multiple related meanings in poetry, rhetoric, and modern psychology.
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In modern psychology, the term katabasis is sometimes used to describe the depression some young men experience.Jung's 1932 Article on Picasso Author Robert Bly proposes in his book Iron John: A Book About Men several reasons for the "catabasis phenomenon", amongst them the lack of Western initiation rites and the lack of strong father figures and role models.
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In Ovid's poetic collection of mythological stories, he includes accounts of katabasis as well. In book 4, he includes an account of Juno's descent to Hades to bring her perceived justice to Ino. Ovid describes Juno's path to the underworld, noting Cerberus' presence. Juno seeks the Furies (Tisiphone, Megara, and Alecto) to destroy the house of Cadmus, namely Ino and her husband Athamas.
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After a stay at Shiraz, he returned to Ispahan, and proceeded to Ecbatana and Bagdad, and then, following the route of Xenophon's Katabasis, to Scutari. He was the first person to locate the mausoleum of Cyrus the Great in Pasargadae near Shiraz.N. K. Shahbazi, Comprehensive Guide of Parseh, p.123 He published an account of his journey in Travels in Georgia, Persia, Armenia, Ancient Babylonia, 1817–1820.
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The Shade of Tiresias Appearing to Odysseus during the Sacrifice (c. 1780-85), painting by Johann Heinrich Füssli, showing a scene from Book Eleven of the Odyssey In ancient Greek cult-practice and literature, a nekyia or nekya () is a "rite by which ghosts were called up and questioned about the future," i.e., necromancy. A nekyia is not necessarily the same thing as a katabasis.
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C. G. Jung used the concept of Nekyia as an integral part of his analytical psychology: "Nekyia ... introversion of the conscious mind into the deeper layers of the unconscious psyche".C . G. Jung, Analytical Psychology (London 1976) p. 41 For Jung, "the Nekyia is no aimless or destructive fall into the abyss, but a meaningful katabasis ... its object the restoration of the whole man".
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Odysseus consults the soul of the prophet Tiresias in his katabasis during the 11th book of the Odyssey. In the 11th book of the Odyssey, Odysseus follows the advice of Circe and consults Tiresias in the land of the dead. During Odysseus' visit, the souls of many appear to him. The first to appear to Odysseus is Elpenor, his crew member who died prior to leaving Circe's island.
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Radeechy, whose suicide is the object of Ducane's investigations, claimed to a magician. Supernatural elements include Fivey, Ducane's mysterious servant, whose mother "was a mermaid", and the flying saucers that the children at Trescombe House see. Water, here very present in the form of the sea, is a common theme in Murdoch's novels. Ducane's near escape from drowning in the underwater cave is a pivotal point in the plot, and is the second of two instances of katabasis in the book.
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In HOME- The Horror Story (2000), featuring Richard Beymer, Tracy Nelson and Grace Zabriskie, the writer-director used absurdist humor and surreal visuals to satirize conservative "family values". Katabasis, written and directed in France in 2011, re-tells the story of the Minotaur Myth, in a modern cinematic interpretation. In 2015 Temistocles directed Elettra, a feature documentary about the life and work of Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of the radio and wireless communication. During 2018 Temistocles travelled around the world shooting Monumental, a documentary about gigantic architecture.
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The katabasis of Virgil's Aeneid occurs in book 6 of the epic. Unlike Odysseus, Aeneas seeks to enter the Underworld, rather than bring the spirits of the dead to him through sacrifice. He begins his journey with a visit to the Cumaean Sibyl (a priestess of Apollo) and asks for her assistance to journey to the Underworld and visit his father. The priestess tells him to find a golden branch, and if the branch breaks off in his hands, he is fated to go to the Underworld.
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Orpheus travels out of the Underworld followed by the shade of his wife, Eurydice The next major katabasis in the Metamorphoses occurs in book 5 by Proserpina, the daughter of Ceres who is kidnapped by Dis. As Proserpina is picking flowers, Dis falls in love with her and decides to grab her and take her to the underworld in his chariot. Worried about her now-missing daughter, Ceres becomes distraught and searches for Proserpina. When Ceres discovers the kidnapping, she goes to Jove to attempt to get Proserpina back.
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Upper Rupes Tenuis unit exposed northwest of Crotone crater The proposed erosion mechanism for the polar basal unit in general, and Rupes Tenuis in particular, are katabatic winds (From Greek: katabasis, "descent", i.e. strong winds descending from Planum Boreum), and solar ablation. These mechanisms are also considered responsible for the modern-day erosion and retreat of the Rupes Tenuis scarp, the existence of conical mounds and promontories in the immediate vicinity of the scarp, and the creation of the narrow channels that separate Abalos Mensa from the scarp. This erosion process is theorised to have existed since the Late Amazonian period on Mars, and it is considered to have contributed to the continuous retreat of the polar scarp from an older southern latitude as low as 74ºN.
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Among her poetry books in English, The Violent Foam: New & Selected Poems, a bilingual collections, was published by Curbstone Press. Life for Each, was published in England by Katabasis in 1994; an earlier collection, Riverbed of Memory, was published by City Lights Books in 1992, and Clean Slate by Curbstone Press in 1993. Her work has been published in magazines and literary newspapers in Latin America, the Caribbean, the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Viet Nam. Her poetry has appeared in more than eighty anthologies in thirty languages, including the influential Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry. She has given poetry readings and lectures throughout the world, at many venues in the U.S., and was a featured poet in Bill Moyer’s PBS series The Language of Life.
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158-9 There he consults the soul of the priest and prophet Teiresias about the means to return home to Ithaca, in a setting of "ghosts and dark blood and eerie noises, like a canvas of Hieronymous Bosch".M. I. Finley, The World of Odysseus (Penguin 1967) p. 164 He sacrifices a ram and an ewe so that "the countless shades of the dead and gone" would "surge around" himThe Odyssey (translated by Robert Fagles, Penguin Books, 1997) and then he meets and talks to the souls of the dead. "The story of Odysseus's journey to Hades ... was followed ... by further accounts of such journeys undertaken by other heroes", although it is clear that, for example, "the [katabasis, "descent"] of Herakles in its traditional form must have differed noticeably from the Nekyia".
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