Parnassus

Parnassus (Davidson County)

Parnassus, an independent bookstore in Nashville co-owned by writer Ann Pachett. 
The store is named after the home of the Muses.

Parnassus Books

Ancient Parnassus

Sample Latin Text:

Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.313-323

Here, Ovid tells the story of Mt. Parnassus and its role in the story of Deucalion and Pyrrha . . . sort of a Noah's Ark and Adam and Eve story all rolled into one.

Separat Aonios Oetaeis Phocis ab arvis,
terra ferax, dum terra fuit, sed tempore in illo
pars maris et latus subitarum campus aquarum.
Mons ibi verticibus petit arduus astra duobus,
nomine Parnasos, superantque cacumina nubes.
Hic ubi Deucalion (nam cetera texerat aequor)
cum consorte tori parva rate vectus adhaesit . . .

Loeb Translation:

"The land of Phocis separates the Boeotian from the Oetean fields, a fertile land, while still it was a land. But at that time it was but a part of the sea, a broad expanse of sudden waters. There Mount Parnassus lifts its two peaks skyward, high and steep, piercing the clouds. When here Deucalion and his wife, borne in a little skiff, had come to land—for the sea had covered all things else . . ."