(Modon), an ancient city of Messenia, was situated on the S.W. coast. It is called Pedasus in the Iliad, and not until the Messenian wars is it mentioned in history as Methone. At the close of the second of these struggles it was given by the victorious Lacedemonians to the exiled Nauplians, but was restored to its rightful owners by Epaminondas. An unsuccessful attack was made upon Methone by the Athenians in 413 B.C. It was made a free city by the Emperor Trajan.**