Modone
- Ancient name
- Methone
- Modern name
- Methoni
- Modern country
- Greece
- Coordinates
- 40.47, 22.58
Modone (now Methoni) is a fortified port town on the southwestern end of the Peloponnesian peninsula. In the fifteenth century it was a Venetian port. Campbell #939.
The toponym Modone appears in La Sfera in the following places:
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Map of the location P094
This toponym only appears in the poem, never in the maps.
- Suggested citation
- Beneš, Carrie. “Modone.” Gregorio Dati’s La sfera = The Globe: A Digital Edition, May 3, 2026. https://la-sfera-staging-a8db029690a6.herokuapp.com/toponyms/modone/.