Mount Parnassus is a mountain in Greece, sacred in mythology and a metaphor for the arts and learning.

Parnassus or Parnassos may also refer to:

Geography

Greece and Rome

  • Parnassos (municipality), a former municipality in Phocis, Greece, named for Mount Parnassus
  • Parnassus (Cappadocia), an ancient Roman town in Asia Minor, a former Catholic diocese and present titular see

New Zealand

  • Parnassus, New Zealand, a town on the South Island

United States

  • Mount Parnassus (Colorado), a summit in the Rocky Mountains
  • Mount Sutro, formerly Mount Parnassus, a hill in San Francisco, California
  • Parnassus, Pennsylvania, a neighborhood of New Kensington, Pennsylvania

Literature

  • Parnassus plays, a comedic cycle originally performed at Cambridge University 1598–1602
  • Parnassos, a Greek literary magazine published by the Parnassos Literary Society in Athens, 1877–1895
  • Parnassus, an American art journal published from 1929–1941, until it changed its name to College Art Journal
  • Parnassus (1973 magazine), an American literary magazine published in New York, 1973–2019
  • Parnassus (Northern Essex Community College), the literary arts magazine of Northern Essex Community College, Massachusetts, founded in 1965

Painting and sculpture

  • Parnassus (Mantegna), a 1497 painting by Andrea Mantegna
  • Parnassus (Poussin), a 1631–1633 painting by Nicolas Poussin
  • The Parnassus, a 1511 painting by Raphael
  • Frieze of Parnassus, an 1860s frieze on the Albert Memorial, London, England

Other uses

  • Parnassos, in myth, the son of the nymph Cleodora, and namesake of the mountain
  • – one of several vessels by that name
  • Parnassos Strovolou, a Cypriot sports club in Strovolos

See also

  • Montparnasse, a neighbourhood in Paris
  • Parnassia, a plant genus
  • Parnassius, a butterfly genus
  • Parnassianism, a 19th-century French literary movement
  • The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, a 2009 fantasy film