Parnassus (disambiguation)
Mount Parnassus is a sacred mountain in central Greece, near Delphi. The name "Parnassus" in literature typically refers to its distinction as the home of poetry, literature and, by extension, learning.
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Parnassus or Parnassos may also refer to:
Geography and derivates
- Greece
- Parnassos (municipality), a former municipality in Phocis, Greece, named after Mount Parnassus
- Parnassos, the mythic son of the nymph Kleodora and the man Kleopompus, and namesake of the mountain and city
- Elsewhere
- Parnassus (Cappadocia), a Roman town, former Catholic diocese and present Latin titular see in Cappadocia (Asia Minor)
- Mount Sutro, a hill in San Francisco, California, U.S. formerly named Mount Parnassus
- Parnassus, New Zealand, a town on the east coast of New Zealand's South Island
- Mount Parnassus (Colorado), a thirteener (a mountain that exceeds 13,000 feet)
Humanities
- The Parnassus (1511), a painting by Raphael
- The Frieze of Parnassus (1860s), a frieze on the Albert Memorial
- Parnassus Boicus, a Bavarian learned society and its journal
- Parnassus: Poetry in Review (magazine), a literary magazine
- Parnassus (literary magazine), the literary arts magazine of Northern Essex Community College
- Parnassos, a Greek literary magazine (1877–1899) published by the Parnassos Literary Society in Athens, Greece
- Parnaso Español, "Spanish Parnassus: collection of selected poems from the most famous Spanish poets"
- The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, a 2009 film directed by Terry Gilliam
- Parnassus on Wheels (1917), a novel by Christopher Morley
Parnassus Books, a bookstore in Nashville
Biology
- Parnassia, a plant genus also known as "Grass of Parnassus"
- Parnassia palustris, commonly called marsh grass of Parnassus, northern grass-of-Parnassus, or just grass-of-Parnassus, a species of the genus Parnassia
Other
- Parnassus (1769 ship) was a merchantman and whaler launched on the Thames and last listed in 1796
See also
- Montparnasse, a hilly Paris neighbourhood where students in the 17th century came to recite poetry; they nicknamed it after "Mount Parnassus"
- Parnassius, a genus of butterfly
- Parnassianism, a 19th-century French literary movement
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