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METHANA (Ancient city) METHANA
Stretching out far into the sea from Troezenia is a peninsula, on the coast of
which has been founded a little town called Methana. Here there is a sanctuary
of Isis, and on the market-place is an image of Hermes, and also one of Heracles.
Some thirty stades distant from the town are hot baths. They say that it was when
Antigonus, son of Demetrius, was king of Macedon that the water first appeared,
and that what appeared at once was not water, but fire that gushed in great volume
from the ground, and when this died down the water flowed; indeed, even at the
present day it wells up hot and exceedingly salt. A bather here finds no cold
water at hand, and if he dives into the sea his swim is full of danger. For wild
creatures live in it, and it swarms with sharks.
I will also relate what astonished me most in Methana. The wind called
Lips (a S.W. wind), striking the budding vines from the Saronic Gulf, blights
their buds. So while the wind is still rushing on, two men cut in two a cock whose
feathers are all white, and run round the vines in opposite directions, each carrying
half of the cock. When they meet at their starting place, they bury the pieces
there.
Such are the means they have devised against the Lips. The islets,
nine in number, lying off the land are called the Isles of Pelops, and they say
that when it rains one of them is not touched. If this be the case I do not know,
though the people around Methana said that it was true, and I have seen before
now men trying to keep off hail by sacrifices and spells.
Methana, then, is a peninsula of the Peloponnesus. (Paus. 2.34.1-4)
TRIZIN (Ancient city) GREECE
City, founded by Pittheus, Herakles ascends from Hades at, Theseus at, Aegeus lodges with Pittheus at, in Argolis, entrusted with the island of Hydrea, mother-city of Halicarnssus, its contingent in the Greek fleet, in the force at the Isthmus, in Pausanias' army, Troezenians in the battle of Mycale, receives Dorian colony, subject to Argos, city described.
METHANA (Ancient city) METHANA
Between Troezen and Epidaurus there was a strong hold called Methana, and also a peninsula of the same name. In some copies of Thucydides the name is spelled "Methone," the same as the Macedonian city in which Philip, in the siege, had his eye knocked out. And it is on this account, in the opinion of Demetrius of Scepsis, that some writers, being deceived, suppose that it was the Methone in the territory of Troezen against which the men sent by Agamemnon to collect sailors are said to have uttered the imprecation that its citizens might never cease from their wall-building, since, in his opinion, it was not these citizens that refused, but those of the Macedonian city, as Theopompus says; and it is not likely, he adds, that these citizens who were near to Agamemnon disobeyed him. (Strabo 8.6.1)
TRIZIN (Ancient city) GREECE
Troezen is sacred to Poseidon, after whom it was once called Poseidonia. It is
situated fifteen stadia above the sea, and it too is an important city. Off its
harbor, Pogon by name, lies
Calauria, an isle with a circuit
of about one hundred and thirty stadia. Here was an asylum sacred to Poseidon;
and they say that this god made an exchange with Leto, giving her Delos
for Calauria, and also with
Apollo, giving him Pytho
for Taenarum. And Ephorus
goes on to tell the oracle:
"For thee it is the same thing to possess Delos
or Calauria, most holy Pytho
or windy Taenarum."
And there was also a kind of Amphictyonic League connected with this temple, a
league of seven cities which shared in the sacrifice; they were Hermion,
Epidaurus, Aegina,
Athens, Prasieis,
Nauplieis, and Orchomenus
Minyeius; however, the Argives
paid dues for the Nauplians,
and the Lacedaemonians for
the Prasians. The worship
of this god was so prevalent among the Greeks that even the Macedonians,
whose power already extended as far as the temple, in a way preserved its inviolability,
and were afraid to drag away the suppliants who fled for refuge to Calauria;
indeed Archias, with soldiers, did not venture to do violence even to Demosthenes,
although he had been ordered by Antipater to bring him alive, both him and all
the other orators he could find that were under similar charges, but tried to
persuade him; he could not persuade him, however, and Demosthenes forestalled
him by suiciding with poison. Now Troezen and Pittheus, the sons of Pelops, came
originally from Pisatis;
and the former left behind him the city which was named after him, and the latter
succeeded him and reigned as king. But Anthes, who previously had possession of
the place, set sail and founded Halicarnassus;
but concerning this I shall speak in my description of Caria
and Troy. (Strabo 8.6.14)
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