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Melissus may
refer to:
Melissus of Samos, (fl. c. 500 BC), Gr****
philosopher Melissus of Thebes, Gr****
athlete contrasted to
Orion by
Pindar Gaius Maecenas...
- says that
Melissus had also
defeated Pericles in an
earlier battle. In his Life of Themistocles,
Plutarch denies Stesimbrotus’
claim that
Melissus was held...
- On
Melissus, Xenophanes, and
Gorgias (Gr****: Περὶ Μελίσσου, Ξενοφάνους καὶ Γοργίου; Latin: De Melisso, Xenophane, Gorgia) is a
short work
falsely attributed...
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Gaius Maecenas Melissus (/məˈlɪsəs/; fl. 1st
century AD) was one of the
freedmen of
Gaius Maecenas, the
noted Roman Augustan patron of the arts. His primary...
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Paulus Melissus (also: Paul
Melissus, Paul Schede, or
Paulus Schedius Melissus; 20
December 1539 – 3
February 1602) was a
humanist Neo-Latin writer, translator...
- some
interpreters see
Melissus as
responding to Leucippus' atomism,
which is then
responded to by
Democritus - but
others see
Melissus responding to Democritus...
- milk of the goat-nymph Amaltheia.
Melisseus is
simply another form of
Melissus, also a
Cretan "honey-man,"
remembered by
later mythographers as a "king...
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Nature (Empedocles) On
Nature (Epicurus) On
Nature (Hera****us) On
Nature (
Melissus) On
Nature (Parmenides) On
Nature (Philolaus) On
Nature (Zeno) Physis,...
- Elea, and
Melissus)
followed in the 5th
century BCE.
Parmenides claimed that only one
thing exists and
nothing can change. Zeno and
Melissus mainly defended...
- the
Eleatic school of philosophy,
which also
included Zeno of Elea and
Melissus of Samos. Zeno's
paradoxes of
motion were
developed to
defend Parmenides'...
