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Mount Parnassus - (Greek mythology) a mountain in central Greece where (according to Greek mythology) the Muses lived; known as the mythological home of music and poetry; "Liakoura is the modern name of Mount Parnassus"

Liakoura, Parnassus

Greek mythology - the mythology of the ancient Greeks

Ellas, Greece, Hellenic Republic - a republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula; known for grapes and olives and olive oil

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On the slope of Mount Parnassus was the famous Delphi, whither Cadmus was going.

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Delphi is carved on the side of Mount Parnassus, one of Greece's tallest peaks, and was dedicated to Apollo, son of Zeus and god of music and sun.

Five sisters in Greece

is Mount Parnassus, on the southern slopes of which Delphi is situated?

Time out extra

Purdy and I wandered lonely as clouds borne by a breeze off Mount Parnassus. She must have seen the darkest eyes in the room brim: The next day she gave me a poem she'd chosen especially for me to read to the all-except-for-me white class.

Reinventing and Reimagining the World: A Tribute to Marilyn Nelson

NO Tim Drew managing director, Mount Parnassus Here in Scotland we are seeing economic growth lagging year-on-year that of England.

The burning question; Q Do Scottish politicians have a strong enough focus on economic growth?

From the vantage of its Mount Parnassus, it discerns those works that have become--perhaps without our realizing it--indispensable to our account of ourselves.

Ronald Y. Otsuka and Fangfang Xu, eds., Xu Beihong: Pioneer of Modern Chinese Painting

By naming the store Parnassus Books, she hopes for an emotional response from readers in Nashville, dubbed "the Athens of the South." Mount Parnassus was the source of literature, learning and music in Greek mythology.

Ann Patchett gives hometown the gift of books

EPERITUS is a young Greek soldier on a solitary pilgrimage to the oracle on Mount Parnassus, when he stumbles across a group of travellers outnumbered by renegade deserters from the war in Thebes.

Legendary tale; Book SHELF

So he headed to tiny Ward, a bump of a hill that is dwarfed by the giant 6,000-foot-plus Mount Parnassus ski area about two hours from Athens, where he grew up.

Tripodakis is welcomed by big hearts