Definitions for "Methana"
Methana (Greek: Μέθανα), can refer to a town, municipality, volcano, and peninsula located in the Piraeus Prefecture, in Greece in the eastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula, in the district of Loutropolis Methana (Λουτρούπολη fr. λουτρό loutros spring + πόλη poli city). The initial (near the village Vathy) settlement dates from 1500–1300 BC. In the Hellenistic period the peninsula became one of the Ptolemaic bases in the Aegean when it was renamed Arsinoe.