Melissus of samos biography of william

          Melissus ( BCE) was from the island of Samos, the birthplace of Pythagoras.

          A Greek philosopher, of the Eleatic School, b....


          Life and Work

          Melissus of Samos (fl. 5th c. BC), after Parmenides and Zeno, is the third important thinker of the Eleatic movement.

          Melissus of Samos was a philosopher of the ancient Greek Eleatic School of philosophy and the elected admiral of the Samian fleet.

        1. Melissus of Samos was a philosopher of the ancient Greek Eleatic School of philosophy and the elected admiral of the Samian fleet.
        2. Melissus of Samos, a Greek philosopher, of the Eleatic School, b.
        3. A Greek philosopher, of the Eleatic School, b.
        4. （*Me/lissos), of Samos, a Greek philosopher, the son of Ithagenes, is said to have been likewise distinguished as a statesman, and to have commanded the.
        5. A Greek philosopher, of the Eleatic School, b.

          6. Except of a philosopher, he was a naval commander, famous for his victories especially against the Athenians in 441 BC. He wrote one philosophical book in prose from which only ten fragment survive,  thanks to Simplicius

          Theory of Being

          Melissus was a follower of Parmenides’ thought but not in all its details.

          On the one hand, Melissus agrees with Parmenides’ main arguments on the indestructibility, immobility, indivisibility, oneness, completeness, changelessness and perfection of Being. On the other, he adopts a different viewpoint on the Parmenidean timelessness and finitude of Being.

          Melissus understood non-being in terms of spatial emptiness.  Since non-being is impossible as an enclosing limit, then Being is limitless. Thus, while Parmenides’ Being is timeless in finitude, Melissus’ Being is everlasting in infinitum.