title: Parnassus (disambiguation)
text: # 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:
  
  ## 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
  
  ## Humanities
  
  ### Literature and mythology
  
  * Parnassos, in myth, the son of the nymph Cleodora, and namesake of the mountain
  * 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 (literary magazine), the literary arts magazine of Northern Essex Community College, Massachusetts, founded in 1965
  * Parnassus (magazine), an American literary magazine published in New York, 1973–2019
  
  ### 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
  
  * Parnassus (ship) – one of several vessels by that name
  * Parnassos Strovolou, a Cypriot sports club in Strovolos
  