Methone (Greek: ) may refer to:
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''Methone'' (butterfly), a monotypic genus of metalmark butterflies
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Methone (moon), a small moon of Saturn, discovered in 2004
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Methone (Greek myth), one of the Alkyonides, daughters of the giant Alkyoneus
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Dimedone
Dimedone is a cyclic diketone used in organic chemistry to determine whether a compound contains an aldehyde group. Cyclohexanediones in general can be used as catalysts in the formation of transition-metal complexes. Other uses include applicatio ...
, an organic molecule
Geography
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Methone (Argolis)
Methana ( el, Μέθανα) is a town and a former municipality on the Peloponnese peninsula, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Troizinia-Methana, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has ...
, a town in ancient Argolis, Greece
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Methone (Messenia), a town in ancient Messenia, Greece
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Methone (Thessaly)
Methone ( grc, Μεθώνη) was a town and polis (city-state) on the Pagasetic Gulf of ancient Magnesia, Magnesia in ancient Thessaly. The town is mentioned by Homer in the Catalogue of Ships in the ''Iliad'' as belonging to Philoctetes. It is als ...
, a town in ancient Thessaly, Greece
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Methoni, Messenia, a town in Messenia, Greece
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Methoni, Pieria, a town in Pieria, Greece
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Ancient Methone
Ancient Methone ( gr, Μεθώνη), also called Thracian or Macedonian Methone to distinguish it from Messenian Methone was a polis in Ancient Greece, near the city of Pydna and the modern village of Nea Agathoupolis in Pieria. According to Pl ...
, ancient town and archaeological site
See also
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Meton of Athens
Meton of Athens ( el, Μέτων ὁ Ἀθηναῖος; ''gen''.: Μέτωνος) was a Greek mathematician, astronomer, geometer, and engineer who lived in Athens in the 5th century BC. He is best known for calculations involving the eponymou ...
, an ancient Greek astronomer.
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Metonic cycle, a 19 year cycle of lunar event
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