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PARNASSUS (mod. Likkoura or Likeri)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 854 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PARNASSUS (mod. Likkoura or Likeri)  , a See also:mountain of See also:Greece, 8070 ft., in the See also:south of See also:Phocis, rising over the See also:town of See also:Delphi . It had several prominent peaks, the See also:chief known as Tithorea and Lycoreia (whence the See also:modern name) . See also:Parnassus was one of the most See also:holy mountains in Greece, hallowed by the See also:worship of See also:Apollo, of the See also:Muses, and of the Corycian See also:nymphs, and by the orgies of the Bacchantes . Two projecting cliffs, named the Phaedriadae, See also:frame the See also:gorge in which the Castalian See also:spring flows out, and just to the See also:west of this, on a shelf above the See also:ravine of the Pleistus, is the site of the Pythian See also:shrine of Apollo and the Delphic See also:oracle . The Corycian See also:cave is on the See also:plateau between Delphi and the See also:summit .

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