Methone (Thessaly)

Methone (Ancient Greek: Μεθώνη) was a town and polis (city-state)[1] on the Pagasetic Gulf of Magnesia in ancient Thessaly.[2][3][4][5] The town is mentioned by Homer in the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad as belonging to Philoctetes.[6] It is also mentioned in the Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax as a city in Magnesia, together with Iolcus, Coracae, Spalauthra and Olizon.[7]

Map showing ancient Thessaly. Methone is shown to the far right on the Pagasetic Gulf.

Some accept that the town's location is on a hill called Nevestiki (39°19′54″N 23°03′10″E), near the current village of Ano Lechonia,[8][9] where remains of a fortification have been found, but that location has been suggested by others as the site of Coracae.[10]

References
  1. Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thessaly and Adjacent Regions". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 720–721. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
  2. Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax, p. 25
  3. Strabo. Geographica. Vol. ix. p.436. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  4. Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Vol. 4.9.16.
  5. Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.
  6. Homer. Iliad. Vol. 2.716.
  7. Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax, 65.
  8. Richard Talbert, Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, (ISBN 0-691-03169-X), Map 55.
  9. Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
  10. Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thessaly and Adjacent Regions". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 719–720. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Methone". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.


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