MUNYCHIA, or Munychius Portus, (anc. geogr.) a village and port of Athens, nearer to the city, less than and fortified in the same manner with the Piræus, to the east of which it lay, or between it and the promontory Sunium, at the mouth of the Ilissus. Strabo says it was an eminence in form of a peninsula, at the foot of which flood three harbours, anciently encompassed with a wall, taking within its extent the Piræus and other harbours, full of docks, with the temple of Diana Munychia, (Paufanias); taking its name from Mynichus, the founder of the temple, (Strabo, Plutarch).