Definition of "Parnassus"
proper noun
A mountain in central Greece, adjacent the site of the ancient city of Delphi, that in Greek mythology was sacred to Apollo and the Corycian nymphs and was the home of the Muses.
Quotations
Phocis separates the Aonian from the Actæan region; a fruitful land while it was a land; but at that time it had become a part of the sea, and a wide plain of sudden waters. There a lofty mountain rises towards the stars, with two tops, by name Parnassus, and advances beyond the clouds with its summit.
1851, Ovid, “Book 1”, in Henry T. Riley, transl., The Metamorphoses of Ovid, volumes 1—Books I–VII, London: George Bell & Sons […] , published 1893