Parnassus, Mount

Modern Greek ��ros Parnass�s, � mountain barren limestone spur of the Pindus Mountains, central Greece, running northwest - southeast on the borders of the nomo� (departments) of Phocis, Fthi�tis, and Boeotia. Rising to a maximum elevation of 8,061 ft (2,457 m) in Mt. Parnassus, within sight of Delphi, it extends to Cape Opus on the Gulf of Corinth. In ancient times Parnassus was sacred to the Dorians and in mythology