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Castalia

a spring on Mount Parnassus: in ancient Greece sacred to Apollo and the Muses and believed to be a source of inspiration
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Castalia

Parnassian spring; regarded as source of inspiration. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 52]

Castalia

founded by intellectuals to form a synthesis of arts and sciences, symbolized in the Glass Bead Game. [Ger. Lit.: Hesse Magister Ludi in Weiss, 278]
See: Utopia
Allusions—Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Once water from the Castalian Spring provided cold baths for athletes training for the Pythian Games.
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non hie ulla tibi speranda est fama, Properti: mollia sunt parvis prata terenda rotis' (3.3.13-8) When Phoebus, spying me from the Castalian wood, Said, leaned upon a golden lyre by his cave: "Fool, what have you to do with such a stream?
(47) To this end, it is not surprising at all that Cervantes underscores the ridiculously absurd though quite natural event in which the same "poetisimos varones," upon their arrival at Parnassus, desperately and indecorously drink from the Castalian font, some with great thirst, while others indignantly wash unspeakable things in its sacred waters: "Unos no solamente se hartaron,/sino que pies y manos y otras cosas/ algo mas indecentes se lavaron" (III, 370-72).
At first, teams combing the wreckage in Castalian Springs thought it was a doll.
(2) Reulis and Cautelis has long and rightly been considered not only the intellectual manifesto of the circle of poets known as the Castalian band, (3) but the king's cultural programme.
A tavern, like the Hippocrene or the Castalian spring, is a form of watering hole.
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