Melissus of Samos (; ; fl. 5th century BC) was the third and last member of the ancient school of
Eleatic philosophy, whose other members included
Zeno and
Parmenides. Little is known about his life except that he was the commander of the Samian fleet shortly before the
Peloponnesian War. Melissus’ contribution to philosophy was a treatise of systematic arguments supporting Eleatic philosophy. Like Parmenides, he argued that reality is ungenerated, indestructible, indivisible, changeless, and motionless. In addition, he sought to show that reality is wholly unlimited, and infinitely extended in all directions; and since existence is unlimited, it must also be one.