Methymna or Methymne () was a city in

ancient Crete The history of Crete goes back to the 7th millennium BC, preceding the ancient Minoan civilization by more than four millennia. The Minoan civilization was the first civilization in Europe. During the Iron Age, Crete developed an Ancient Greece-i ...

, near Rhocca, which

Aelian Aelian or Aelianus may refer to: * Aelianus Tacticus, 2nd-century Greek military writer in Rome * Casperius Aelianus (13–98 AD), Praetorian Prefect, executed by Trajan * Claudius Aelianus Claudius Aelianus (; ), commonly Aelian (), born at Pr ...

mentions in connection with a curious story respecting a remedy for hydrophobia discovered by a Cretan fisherman. Writing in the 19th century,

Robert Pashley Robert Pashley (4 September 1805 – 29 May 1859) was a 19th-century English traveller, lawyer and economist. Pashley was born in York and he studied at Trinity College, Cambridge. Distinguished in mathematics and Classics, in 1830 he was elected ...

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. In the modern day, the village of

Drapanias Drapanias () is a small village in northwestern Crete, in the regional unit of Chania. It was the principal town in the Cretan municipality of Kissamos. It was built in the ruins of the ancient town of Methymna. The nearby village of Ano Drapania ...

is considered to be a potential site of the city, and the municipal unit of

Mithymna Mithymna () (, also sometimes spelled ''Methymna'') is a town and former municipality on the island of Lesbos, North Aegean, Greece. Since the 2019 local government reform it is part of the municipality of West Lesbos, of which it is a municip ...

, which encompasses it, is named after the site.

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Populated places in ancient Crete Former populated places in Greece Lost ancient cities and towns Kissamos {{AncientCrete-geo-stub