north of the seat. The residential area is within the sea. The pastures are around Methana. A mountain ridge is founded in the west and is about long with a stream in the middle and a cliff in the south. History The earliest known settlement (near the village of Vathy) dates from 1500–1300 BC. The first survey was conducted by Michael Deffner, who discovered a large throne, among other artefacts. Many ancient sites were identified through the archaeological survey conducted in the 1980s by the University of Liverpool in association with the British School at Athens. The Acropolis Palaiokastro is located near the village of Vathy. The fortress is in Kypseli at the coast Akropolis Oga at the principal pace of Nisaki (Νησάκι, meaning little island). A Mycenaean settlement was excavated by Helene Konstolakis-Jiannopoulou in 1990 along with the chapel of Agios Konstantinos and Elenis. Selected artifacts can be visited in the museums of Poros island and in Piraeus. This site dates between 1500 and 1300 BC. Methana (, Μεθώνη, or Μεθήνη) was in the territory of Troezen. In his History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides tells of an Athenian expeditionary force under Nicias that after defeating Corinth (in 425 BC) built a wall across the isthmus to cut the Methana peninsula off from the mainland. In the Hellenistic period, the peninsula became one of the Ptolemaic bases in the Aegean when it was renamed Arsinoe. When Pausanias visited in the 2nd century, he saw a temple of Isis, and statutes of Hermes and Heracles in the agora. Traditionally, the population of Methana were Arvanites. Persons Giorgos Batis (1885–1967) singer Lina Nikolakopoulou Paraskeuas Koutsikos See also List of settlements in Attica References External links Official website The alternative Methana Website Project GTP Travel Pages (Community) Methana Volcano Erosion of Methana Methana Volcanoes Spa towns in Greece Volcanoes of Greece Subduction volcanoes Stratovolcanoes Lava domes Troizinia-Methana Landforms of Islands (regional unit) Landforms of Attica Populated places in ancient Argolis Populated places in Islands (regional unit) Arvanite settlements