From the word ἀνάστασις, which is derived from the word ἀνίστημι. As a word meaning "resurrection" (or "to raise/rise from the dead"), it appears in the Iliad, Aeschylus' Agamemnon, Aristophanes' Assemblywomen, Herodotus' The Histories, and Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus.