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While nineteenth-century scholars debated whether the fragmentary Satyrica of Petronius should be regarded as a traditional or an original work in ancient literary history, twentieth-century Petronian scholarship tended to take for granted that the author was a unique innovator and his work a synthetic composition with respect to genre. The consequence of this was an excessive emphasis on authorial intention as well as a focus on parts of the text taken out of the larger context, which has increased the already severe state of fragmentation in which today's reader finds the Satyrica.The presen

Fiction, Ancient --- Satire, Latin --- History and criticism. --- Petronius Arbiter. --- Maderna, Bruno. --- History and criticism --- Petronius Arbiter --- Satire [Latin ] --- Fiction [Ancient ]

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