MUNYCHIA, or Munichius Portus, in Ancient Geography, a village and port of Athens, nearer to the city, fortified in the same manner as the Piraeus, 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 stood three harbours, anciently encompassed with a wall, taking within its extent the Piraeus and other harbours full of docks, with the temple of Diana Munychia; taking its name from Munichus, the founder of the temple.