Abstract

To understand the meaning and function of the ordinal numbers in the myth of the races it is essential to have a full grasp of how the myth is composed and its structure is supposed to be perceived by a listener or reader. There is a general silence among Hesiod scholars about the meaning and function of the ordinal numbers in the myth. A tacit agreement may be inferred from such a silence: the ordinal numbers are implicitly taken to merely express the chronological order of the races. In this article, we examine each and every one of the ordinal numbers that appear in Hesiod’s myth. We demonstrate that the ordinal numbers preserve their hierarchical dimension even in the cases in which this appears to be less convincing.

Highlights

  • To understand the meaning and function of the ordinal numbers in the myth of the races it is essential to have a full grasp of how the myth is composed and its structure is supposed to be perceived by a listener or reader

  • There is a general silence among Hesiod scholars about the meaning and function of the ordinal numbers in the myth

  • I To understand the meaning and function of the ordinal numbers in the myth of the five races it is essential to have a full grasp of the way in which Hesiod’s myth is composed and how its structure is supposed to be perceived by a listener or reader

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I To understand the meaning and function of the ordinal numbers in the myth of the five races it is essential to have a full grasp of the way in which Hesiod’s myth is composed and how its structure is supposed to be perceived by a listener or reader.

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