Methana (Greek: Μέθανα, Méthana) is a town and a former municipality on the Peloponnese peninsula, Greece.

The peninsula is the northwesternmost of the arc of the Aegean islands of which the active volcanic areas are Methana, Milos, Santorini and Nisyros.

[citation needed] The panorama of the northeastern part of Argolis, southeastern and eastern Corinthia along with the southern part of the Attica peninsula and the Saronic Islands of Aegina and Salamis along with a smaller one and the mountains of the eastern tip of the neighboring peninsula.

The mountain range covers the central part of the peninsula and has a small ridge north of the seat.

A mountain ridge is founded in the west and is about 3 km (2 mi) long with a stream in the middle and a cliff in the south.

Many ancient sites were identified through the archaeological survey conducted in the 1980s by the University of Liverpool in association with the British School at Athens.

The Acropolis Palaiokastro is located near the village of Vathy but the main port is at Methana, also called Arsinoe in Ptolemaic times, with a fort on the islet of Nisaki.

The name of the town appears to be in the so-called "Aegean List" from the Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III in Egypt, dating to 14th century BCE, where it is recorded as m-dj-n-ij.

[5] Methana (Ancient Greek: τὰ Μέθανα,[6][7] tà Méthana), Methone (Μεθώνη,[8][9] Methṓnē), or Methene (Μεθήνη,[10] Methḗnē) was in the territory of Troezen.

In his History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides tells of an Athenian expeditionary force under Nicias that after defeating Corinth (in 425 BC) built a wall across the isthmus to cut the Methana peninsula off from the mainland.