Melissus of Samos
c. 470 BCE–c. 430 BCE · Samos
Third Eleatic; systematized Parmenidean monism in prose, arguing Being is infinite, one, and unchanging.
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Samos
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About Samos
A powerful Ionian island once ruled by the tyrant Polycrates—birthplace of Pythagoras, home of the Eleatic monist Melissus, and the island whose son Aristarchus first dared to set the Sun, not the Earth, at the center of the cosmos.
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Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Melissus of Samos’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Graeco-Roman world
- Pindar· 518 BCE–438 BCE
- Bacchylides· 518 BCE–451 BCE
- Parmenides· 515 BCE–445 BCE
- Diogenes of Apollonia· 500 BCE–428 BCE
- Anaxagoras· 500 BCE–428 BCE
- Sophocles· 496 BCE–406 BCE
- Empedocles· 495 BCE–435 BCE
- Protagoras· 490 BCE–420 BCE
- Zeno of Elea· 490 BCE–430 BCE
- Gorgias of Leontini· 483 BCE–376 BCE
- Leucippus· 480 BCE–420 BCE
- Hippias of Elis· 480 BCE–415 BCE
- Antiphon· 480 BCE–411 BCE
- Euripides· 480 BCE–406 BCE
- Socrates· 470 BCE–399 BCE
- Philolaus of Croton· 470 BCE–385 BCE
- Prodicus· 465 BCE–395 BCE
- Critias· 460 BCE–403 BCE
- Thucydides· 460 BCE–400 BCE
- Hippocrates· 460 BCE–370 BCE
- Democritus· 460 BCE–370 BCE
- Aristophanes· 446 BCE–386 BCE
- Lysias· 445 BCE–380 BCE
- Andocides· 440 BCE–390 BCE
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