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=== Exterior geography ===
According to author Jeremy McInerney, "Delphi and Mt.Parnassus became, through [[myth and ritual]], landscape in which tensions between wilderness and civilizations... could be narrated, enacted, and organized". This could be seen in the ritual and in topography where Mt.Parnassus is split into the zones of harsh wilderness at its peaks in contrast to the plateau below that was used for cultivation, and in the center of this, as McInerney says, "... the deeper movement from chaos to order..."<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/310313|access-date=2021-12-02|journal=Harvard Studies in Classical Philology|title=The Origin of Plato's Cave|last1=Wright|first1=John Henry|year=1906|volume=17|pages=131–142|doi=10.2307/310313|jstor=310313|url-access=subscription}}</ref> was the Corycian Cave. Due to its topographical location, to ancient Greeks the Corycian Cave was the divider between wilderness and culture. It represents a place outside of the sanctuary of Delphi below but not at the dangerous mountain peaks, a place where for mythological purposes, "... where nymphs are possessed and tamed by the gods..."<ref name=":3" />

The Corycian Cave sits at an altitude of 1,250m above sea level. The ascent to the Corycian Cave from the plateau below was a steep and rocky one, climbing an elevation of 1,000m in under a half kilometer.