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Mount Parnassus   /maʊnt pˌɑrnˈæsəs/   Listen
Mount Parnassus

noun
1.
(Greek mythology) a mountain in central Greece where (according to Greek mythology) the Muses lived; known as the mythological home of music and poetry.  Synonyms: Liakoura, Parnassus.






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"Mount Parnassus" Quotes from Famous Books



... enter, as is alleged, into the limit of perpetual snow, those summits, according to their position in latitude, should attain from 1400 to 1600 toises. Yet on the loftiest mountains of Greece, Tomoros, Olympus in Thessaly, Polyanos in Dolope and Mount Parnassus, M. Pouqueville saw, in the month of August, snow lying only in patches, and in cavities sheltered from the rays of the sun.) The contrast between America and Europe, with respect to distribution of the culminant points, ...
— Equinoctial Regions of America V3 • Alexander von Humboldt

... the St. Vincent, with its great dais overshadowing a group of the Nativity, and water spouting from the mouths of oxen in the manger; the Lacrosse with the Virgin and her Child; the Lisieux, whereon was carved the Mount Parnassus with Apollo and the Muses, Pegasus too, and a great triple-headed matron for Philosophy, and two bronze salamanders vomiting streams of water; all the fountains that Jacques Lelieur has traced for us are perfect and are playing in the town whose streets ...
— The Story of Rouen • Sir Theodore Andrea Cook



Words linked to "Mount Parnassus" :   Ellas, Greece, Hellenic Republic, Greek mythology, mountain peak



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