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Paris (By some he is said to have)

By some he is said to have been killed by one of the arrows of Philoctetes which had once belonged to Hercules.

Parnassus, A mountain of Phocis sacred to the Muses, and to Apollo and Bacchus. It was named thus after a son of Neptune who bore that designation. Lord Byron alludes to it in Childe Harold, canto i.: "Oh, thou Parnassus! whom I now survey, Not in the frenzy of a dreamer's eye, Not in the fabled landscape of a lav, But soaring snow-clad through thy native sky, In the wild pomp of mountain majesty!"