Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

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Munychia

（Μουνυχία). A hill in the peninsula of Piraeus, which formed the citadel of the ports of Athens. It was strongly fortified, and is frequently mentioned in Athenian history. At its foot lay the harbour of Munychia, one of the three harbours in the peninsula of Piraeus, fortified by Themistocles. The names of these three harbours were Piraeus, Zea, and Munychia. The entrance to the harbour of Munychia was very narrow, and could be closed by a chain. The hill of Munychia contained several public buildings. Of these the most important were:

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a temple of Artemis Munychia, in which persons accused of crimes against the State took refuge;

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the Bendideum, the sanctuary of the Thracian Artemis Bendis, in whose honour the festival of the Bendidea was celebrated;

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the theatre on the northwestern slope of the hill, in which the assemblies of the people were sometimes held (Pausan. i. 1, 4).