---
name: Melissa the Pythagorean
name_greek: Μέλισσα
eul_aid: jow
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/authors/melissa-the-pythagorean-jow"
period: Hellenistic
dialect: Doric
affiliation: Pythagorean
works_count: 1
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# Melissa the Pythagorean

*Μέλισσα*

**eul_aid:** `jow` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/authors/melissa-the-pythagorean-jow)

Melissa, a Hellenistic Pythagorean philosopher of the 3rd century BCE. Her surviving work is a treatise. Free to download from the Greek library archive.

## Works

- [Fragment of a Letter to Cleareta](https://eulogikon.org/works/melissa-pythagorean-letter-cleareta-jow-aa) — *Ἀπόσπασμα ἐπιστολῆς πρὸς Κλεαρέταν* · `jow-aa`

## License and provenance

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