SOURCE: "Life a Dream: The Poetry of Petronius," in Symbol and Myth in Ancient Poetry, Fordham University Press, 1961, pp. 159-64.
In the following essay, Musurillo examines Petronius's use of dream symbolism in his poetry and describes how it works on more than one level.
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