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MUNYOHIA.
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outside Eetioneia, as it appears not to have been included in the fortifi-
cations, and would have been a proper place for Pausanias' survey.
Thrasybulus attacks him here, but is repulsed and driven back into the
theatre of Peiraeeus. This must be the same theatre which Thucy-
dides' calls the Dionysiac theatre near Munychia; and indeed it
appears to have been just on the borders of that district. Thrasybulus
renewed the attack from the theatre, and routed the Lacedaemonians,2
who retired to some rising ground four or five ■stades distant. But
having received reinforcements from hence they attacked the Athenians
in turn, killed 150 of them, and drove others into the marsh at Halas.
The military strength of Munychia had been observed by Epimenides
in the time of Solon, and a prediction of his is recorded, that if the
Athenians knew the annoyance the place would cause them, they would
eat it up with their own teeth.3 The prophecy, however, was not veri-
fied till some centuries after his time, when, in B.C. 322, Munychia was
occupied by a Macedonian garrison.
Artemis, as the peculiar deity of the Peiraeeus, was probably con-
nected with the Brauronian Artemis.4 Munychia, on which her temple
stood, is by some thought to have derived its name from a fanciful
epithet, designating her as the sole goddess of the night (/j.ovo-vvx''a) ;5
but according to Harpocration (in voc.) it was named after a king
Mounychos. From her situation on this height, Callimachus gives her
the epithet of \t,fievoa/c6iro<;, 'watcher of the harbour.'6 Her festival
was celebrated on the 16th of the month Munychion, when large round
cakes having lights round them (d/t<£«/>&jin-e?), to represent the full
moon, were offered.7 At a later period another festival, in commemo-
1 viii. 93.
2 Xenoph. ibid. s. 30 sqq. Some La-
cedaemonians killed in this nction were
buried before the Dipylon.—s. 33.
3 Plut. Sol. 12; Diog. Laert. i. 114;
Tzetzes, Chil. v. 18.
4 Welcker, Gr. G. i. 170 sqq.
6 Trailer, Gr. Mythol. i. 236. The form
of the name with an tola (Movn^ia), found
in inscriptions, seems to be later. See A.
Mommsen, Heortol. p. 403.
Pian. 259. Hence is it not more probable
that she got her name of Momv\ia from
the place, like her epithet Bpavpwvia ?
This was a common practice.
7 Pollux,vi. 75; Athen. xiv. 53; Pi avor.
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outside Eetioneia, as it appears not to have been included in the fortifi-
cations, and would have been a proper place for Pausanias' survey.
Thrasybulus attacks him here, but is repulsed and driven back into the
theatre of Peiraeeus. This must be the same theatre which Thucy-
dides' calls the Dionysiac theatre near Munychia; and indeed it
appears to have been just on the borders of that district. Thrasybulus
renewed the attack from the theatre, and routed the Lacedaemonians,2
who retired to some rising ground four or five ■stades distant. But
having received reinforcements from hence they attacked the Athenians
in turn, killed 150 of them, and drove others into the marsh at Halas.
The military strength of Munychia had been observed by Epimenides
in the time of Solon, and a prediction of his is recorded, that if the
Athenians knew the annoyance the place would cause them, they would
eat it up with their own teeth.3 The prophecy, however, was not veri-
fied till some centuries after his time, when, in B.C. 322, Munychia was
occupied by a Macedonian garrison.
Artemis, as the peculiar deity of the Peiraeeus, was probably con-
nected with the Brauronian Artemis.4 Munychia, on which her temple
stood, is by some thought to have derived its name from a fanciful
epithet, designating her as the sole goddess of the night (/j.ovo-vvx''a) ;5
but according to Harpocration (in voc.) it was named after a king
Mounychos. From her situation on this height, Callimachus gives her
the epithet of \t,fievoa/c6iro<;, 'watcher of the harbour.'6 Her festival
was celebrated on the 16th of the month Munychion, when large round
cakes having lights round them (d/t<£«/>&jin-e?), to represent the full
moon, were offered.7 At a later period another festival, in commemo-
1 viii. 93.
2 Xenoph. ibid. s. 30 sqq. Some La-
cedaemonians killed in this nction were
buried before the Dipylon.—s. 33.
3 Plut. Sol. 12; Diog. Laert. i. 114;
Tzetzes, Chil. v. 18.
4 Welcker, Gr. G. i. 170 sqq.
6 Trailer, Gr. Mythol. i. 236. The form
of the name with an tola (Movn^ia), found
in inscriptions, seems to be later. See A.
Mommsen, Heortol. p. 403.
Pian. 259. Hence is it not more probable
that she got her name of Momv\ia from
the place, like her epithet Bpavpwvia ?
This was a common practice.
7 Pollux,vi. 75; Athen. xiv. 53; Pi avor.
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