Economically, its rolling foothills and valleys host extensive groves of olive, a cash crop marketed world-wide since prehistory.

They had good views of Parnassus, and climbed some part of it frequently, and yet the name remains unattested in what is known of their language, Mycenaean Greek, which is written in Linear B script.

[3] Such a derivation, being consistent with the reputation of the mountain as being a holy one, where the power of divinity is manifested, has always been considered a strong one, even by critics of the theory.

Palmer goes on to postulate that some pre-Greek people were Anatolian, perhaps from an earlier wave of conquest, and that their country and facilities were taken by the proto-Greeks.

An unusual geological feature of Parnassus is its rich deposits of bauxite, which has led to their systematic mining since the end of the 1930s, resulting in ecological damage to part of the mountain.

Mount Parnassus is named after Parnassos, son of the nymph Kleodora and the man Kleopompus.

While Orpheus was living[9] with his mother and his eight beautiful aunts on Parnassus, he met Apollo, who was courting the laughing muse Thalia.

This relation of the mountain to the Muses offered an instigation for its "mystification" by the poetic-artistic Parnassism movement, established in France in the decade of 1866 to 1876 as a reaction to Romanticism.

The periodical Modern Parnassus, issued by Catul Mendes and Xavier Ricard, contained direct references to Mt.

The Parnassists, who did not exceed a group of twenty poets, exercised a relatively strong influence on the cultural life of Paris, particularly due to their tenacity in the perfection of rhyme and vocabulary.

[10] The name of the mountain (Mont Parnasse) was given to a quarter of Paris on the left bank of the Seine, where artists and poets used to gather and recite their poems in public.

Montparnasse is nowadays one of the most renowned quarters of the city, and in its cemetery, many personalities of the arts and culture are buried.

[5] Parnassus figures earlier in Jonathan Swift's The Battle of the Books (1697) as the site of an ideological war between the ancients and the moderns.

Parnassus was in a unique position to serve as a center for resistance, as it had for the Greek war of independence.

Among the endemic flora species under protection are the Cephalonian fir tree and the Parnassian peony (Paeonia parnassica).

Both ski resorts continued expanding, and in 1993, the first high-speed quad in Greece was installed, named Hercules.