O estatuto do narrador e da matéria narrada no Satyricon de Petrônio

The Satyricon of Petronius (first century a.D.) is taken as a literary work of which there is no precedent; compared to all other known works produced up to its time, it has unique characteristics. Nevertheless it reshapes many literary genres, either in prose or in verse, by means of parody, and restates a new way of making fiction: independent from inspiration by Muses, dependent on first-person narrator. It is intended here to focus on some traces of this new modus narrandi found in Petronius’ Satyricon.