Melissus Explained

Melissus may refer to:

• Melissus of Samos, (fl. c. 500 BC), Greek philosopher
• Melissus of Thebes, Greek athlete contrasted to Orion by Pindar
• Gaius Maecenas Melissus (fl. early 1st century AD), Roman writer
• Paulus Melissus (1539–1602), humanist Neo-Latin writer, translator and composer
• Melisseus (or Melissus), father of the nymphs Adrasteia and Ida, the nurses of Zeus on Crete
• Melissus (another mythological figure), father of Actaeon; see Archias of Corinth

See also

• Melissaeus (disambiguation)