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Key facts
- Elevation
- 1,749 m (5,738 ft)
- Parent range
- Helicon
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Mount Helicon (Ancient Greek: Ἑλικών; Greek: Ελικώνας) is a mountain in the region of Thespiai in Boeotia, Greece, celebrated in Greek mythology. With an altitude of 1,749 metres (5,738 ft), it is located approximately 10 kilometres (6 mi) from the north coast of the Gulf of Corinth. Some researchers maintain that Helicon was also the Greek name of mount Rocca Salvatesta in Sicily as a river started from it was also called Helikon.
Greek mythology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mount Helicon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.