Parnassus (disambiguation)

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:

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 (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
 * Parnassus – one of several vessels by that name
 * Parnassos Strovolou, a Cypriot sports club in Strovolos