Methymna (Crete)

For the modern Cretan municipal unit, see Mithymna. For the town on the island of Lesbos, see Methymna.

Methymna or Methymne (Ancient Greek: Μηθύμνη) was a city in ancient Crete, near Rhocca, which Aelian mentions in connection with a curious story respecting a remedy for hydrophobia discovered by a Cretan fisherman.[1] Writing in the 19th century, Robert Pashley considered that the remains near the chapel of Aghios Georghos, by Nopia, on the extreme eastern edge of the plain of Kastelli Kissamou, represent Methymna.[2] In the modern day, the village of Drapanias is considered to be a potential site of the city,[3][4] and the municipal unit of Mithymna, which encompasses it, is named after the site.

  1. ^ Ael. N.A. 14.20.
  2. ^ Robert Pashley, Trav. vol. ii. p. 40
  3. ^ Atlas of the Christian monuments of the Aegean : from the early Christian years to the fall of Constantinople, Nikolaos Gkioles, Giōrgos Pallēs, Athens, 2014, ISBN 978-618-80577-5-3, OCLC 1059464233, retrieved 2023-03-10{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  4. ^ G., Sēmantōnē-Bournia, Eva. Mendōnē, Lina (1999). Archaeological atlas of the Aegean : from prehistoric times to late antiquity. Ministry of the Aegean. OCLC 1000873502.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)