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Methone

A city in the domain of Philoktetes.

  During the Trojan War, the Achaian soldiers from Methone, Meliboia, Olizon, and Thaumakia originally were commanded by Philoktetes, but he was bitten by a snake before reaching Troy and replaced by Medon, son of Oileus.

Methone

Methone

References:
Homer, Iliad book 2, line 716
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