Anodos () is a term meaning either 'ascent, way up' () or 'pathless, having no road, impassable' (). It may refer to:
- Divine illumination, as used by Plato
- The central character in George MacDonald's fantasy novel Phantastes (1858)
- Pseudonym used by the poet Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
- The third phase ('ascent') of the cycle of Persephone's annual visit to Hades as imagined in the mythology and rites of the Eleusinian Mysteries
- The creation of Pandora, the first woman in Greek mythology