Methoni was an ancient Eretrian settlement in Pieria on a small gulf between Pydna and Pella (capital of the Macedonian sovereigns), Methone, an ally of Athens, was besieged in -354 by King Philip II of Macedonia. Having become Macedonian, Methone was sacked by the Romans after the defeat of Perseus of Macedonia at Pydna . But then under the Roman Empire, from the proximity of the Via Egnatia, the great southern trans-Balkan road., a cosmopolitan community of Greek, Jewish and Roman merchants thrived there. At the end of the 4th century, Christianity was already well established there. Later, Methine was plunderied in the 4th century, Slavs in the 6th century, Arabs
See:
- Diodorus Siculus, Book XVI, chapter.34