Methone/Mothone (Messenian)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II
Creators: G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II
Contributors:
DARMC, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Catherine Bouras, R. Talbert, Enes Yılandiloğlu
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History
An ancient settlement situated on the west coast of the Messenian peninsula of the Peloponnese. The collocated modern settlement is called Methoni and is located in the administrative part of the Pylos-Nestoras municipality, Messenia regional unit, of the modern Greek state.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570483
36.81435, 21.704441
- Representative Locations:
- DARE Location (550 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- Methone/Mothone (Messenian) connection Peloponnesus/Peloponnesos/Peloponnese (unspecified date range)
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settlement
- Evidence:
- See Further:
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- BAtlas 58 B4 Methone/Mothone
- ItMiller 582
- Lauffer 1989 428-29
- McDonald 1972 310 (n. 412)
- New Pauly Methone [1] City on the west coast of Messana [2] (Y. Lafond et al.)
- PECS (Perseus) METHONE (Mothone, Modon) Messenia, Greece
- RE Methone 4 (E. Meyer)
- Shipley 1997 243-44
- ToposText Methone (Messenia)
- Wikipedia (English) Methoni Messenia
- Related:
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- Arachne Methone / Methoni/ Mothone / Modon / Methona Messenien (Regionalbezirke) (Mothone / Pedasos / Methone / Pedasus), Griechenland
- CFL/AGO Toponyme 8968: Methoni
- DARE 21910
- DARMC 4813
- KU TP Database (Rathmann) 999: Mothone
- MANTO 10113703: Mothone (Messenia)
- TM GEO ID 38107: Methone
- Wikidata Methone (Q60790706)
- Wikidata Methoni (Q998805)
- Wikidata Methoni Castle (Q12878512)
- iDAI.gazetteer 2362090: Methone
- nomisma.org Methone
- nomisma.org Mothone
- vici.org 2147: Methone
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 58 B4 Methone/Mothone
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Methoni
G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II, DARMC, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Catherine Bouras, R. Talbert, and Enes Yılandiloğlu, 'Methone/Mothone (Messenian): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570483> [accessed: 14 September 2026]
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