Munychia

A surname of Artemis, derived from the Attic port-town of Munychia, where she had a temple. Her festival was elebrated at Athens in the month of Munychion.

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References

Sources

  • Eustathius on Homer, p. 331.
  • Pausanias. Description of Greece i, 1.4.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.
  • Strabo. Geography xiii, p. 639.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.