Liceo Classico: A Comparative Analysis

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Since my early childhood, I have been exposed to the mysterious world of mythology and folklore, mostly belonging to the ancient Roman tradition, thanks to the bedtime stories that my mother used to read to me and my brother. It was only natural, then, that my scholastic and academic path would, somehow, end up revolving around these subjects, starting with the choice of the Liceo Classico, where together with gaining some knowledge of both ancient Greek and Latin, as far as grammar and translation are concerned, I had the chance to explore in depth the mythological corpus of these cultures as well as achieving insights on the literature and the set of rituals of both religious and profane nature. As an undergraduate student I ended up abandoning for a while the mysteries of the past, and I chose an academic path whose aim was to explore the different linguistic aspects, as well as those concerning the culture and literature of three Germanic countries: England, Denmark, and Germany, with the first two being the most prominent in my studies. Nonetheless, while my undergraduate degree exposed me to a …show more content…

I decided to work on a comparative analysis of the myths told, where my focus was on the striking differences of interpretation that he and Snorri Sturluson gave of the same stories, that I later broadened by adding the existing other versions of the said myths as other terms of comparisons. This is mostly evident in the case of the death of Baldr, that I analyzed in the light of the different versions as found in the Gesta Danorum, the poetic and prose Edda and the Baldrs Draumar as well as in a few spiteful verses contained in the

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