Melissus
2. A Greek writer, a native of Euboea, who wrote a work explaining various mythological stories by the ficts of natural history. (Fulgent. 2.16.) He is probably the same as the Melissus referred to by Palaephates (Proem.) and by Servius (ad Virg. Aen. 4.146).
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.