Ibis when Shadow encounters him during his katabasis, after having seemingly died when hanging on the World Tree.

Among their topics are divine bondage and katabaseis in Hesiod's Theogony, round trip to Hades: Herakles' advice and directions, following the dead to the Underworld: an archaeological approach to Graeco-Roman death oracles, Hades meets Lazarus: the literary katabasis in 12th-century Byzantium, and many (un)happy returns: ancient Greek concepts of a return from death and their later counterparts.

Filosofia Antiga Underground: da Katabasis ao Hades a Caverna de Platao.

"Beats Visiting Hell: Katabasis in Beat Literature." Hip Sublime: Beat Writers and the Classical Tradition, edited by Sheila Murnaghan and Ralph M.

Por esta razon, con la encarnacion, que es el descender de la belleza divina hasta la sombra del cuerpo, la katabasis del Verbo es, en cierto sentido, infinita, como es en cierto modo infinito el abismo existente entre la perfeccion absoluta de Dios y la contingencia de la criatura (68).

That the poet here closely associates the stille waters with the Lethe (stanza 2, lines 1-2) suggests a deliberately polemical juxtaposition of the Biblical and the Classical in this sudden, unanticipated katabasis. Not only does the speaker want to be led beside the Lethe, but he wants to drink deeply from it: Dat ek diep daaruit kan drink (stanza 2, line 3).

Es en este momento teorico, post eventum mysticum, lo que nos interesa reparar especialmente por su valor existencial, pues es en la bajada, al nivel antropologico del alma encarnada, lo que nos interesa como rendimiento etico o pragmatico; puesto que luego de divisar las cimas del Ser acontece, como efecto reactivo natural, una bajada o katabasis causada por la necesidad natural e indefectible del descenso recursivo, que sucede necesariamente despues de toda subida o anabasis.

Classical homecoming narratives, as Gregson Davis observes, frequently employ two additional Greek tropes: katabasis, a descent into Hades, and its opposite, anabasis, the ascent or return to the land of the living.

Here the nadir of descent or katabasis becomes a moment of ascent, or anabasis, a second yes to the no of dereliction.

Nevertheless, this potentially tacit hint falls well short of Lucan's later imagery of Roman dissolution, which uses "the themes of funeral and katabasis" to "tell only of extinction or degeneration" for the great dynastic families of Rome (Hardie 1993, 95).