SOURCE: "Petronius as Paradox: Anarchy and Artistic Integrity," Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, Vol. 102, 1971, pp. 631-84.
In the following essay, Zeitlin contends that the inconsistencies, ambiguities, and incongruities of the Satyricon are deliberate and that they reflect Petronius's worldview, which embraced irrationality, chaos, and disintegration.
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