place
Parnassus
also: Παρνασσός
The mountain beneath which Apollo founds his oracle at Crisa/Pytho; sacred to Apollo and the Muses in later cult.
Reading notes
- The Homeric Hymns §3.256 Parnassus
The mountain beneath which Apollo founds his oracle at Crisa/Pytho; sacred to Apollo and the Muses in later cult.
- The Odyssey §19.386 Parnassus
The mountain of Autolycus, Odysseus's maternal grandfather, where a boar's white tusk gashed his thigh on a boyhood hunt. That scar is what betrays him to Eurycleia as she washes his feet.