by Themistocles, claiming that he is confusing Themistocles and Pericles. Melissus was reputed to have been the pupil of Parmenides, and the teacher of Leucippus, though one must regard such claims with a fair amount of skepticism.

Philosophy

Much of what remains of Melissus's philosophical treatise, later titled On Nature, has been preserved by Simplicius in his commentaries on Aristotle's Physics

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