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Petronius’s debt to Ovid’s amatory works is frequently acknowledged when discussion comes to the so-called “Croton episode”, where Encolpius’s love affair with an aristocratic woman, named Circe, ends rather unsuccessfully with the protagonist’s famous double sexual failure ( Sat.  126.12–128.4 and 131.8–132.5). Although most scholars connect this event with the well-known impotence theme, especially as treated by Ovid in  Am.  3.7, the purpose of this paper is to move beyond the  impotentia , tracing some other, unexplored, elegiac allusions and illusions in the whole narrative. Thus, it will become apparent that it is Petronius’s use of erotic motifs as well as the depiction of (stock-) characters and roleplaying that is further indebted to Ovidian discourse and poetics.

Beyond Impotence Some unexplored Ovidian dynamics in Petronius’s sketch of the Croton episode ( Satyrica 126. 1–140. 12)