Petronio, ¿un sutil Homeromastix?: Nota al topos ergo me non ruina terra potuit haurire? (Sat. 81.3)

Abstract

The purpose of this note is to analyze the relationship between the 'topos' ergo me non ruina terra potuit haurire? in Sat. 81, and the Iliad, since I believe that Petronius, the “autore nascosto”, brings about an assimilation of Encolpius with Agamemnon, which functions as degradation of the epic, but, at the same time, as a sort of metapoetic commentary on a particular passage of the Iliad.