Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Trimalchio" in English language version.
Lovecraft's image neatly inverts Petronius's. Encolpius mistakes pork for other foodstuffs; Delapore initially believes humans to be pigs. The appropriation of Petronius, then, is more subtle than a simple one-to-one correspondence. Lovecraft has identified an element in the presentation of cuisine in the Cena Trimalchionis: the disguise of foodstuffs so that they lose or conceal their original characteristics.
Lovecraft's image neatly inverts Petronius's. Encolpius mistakes pork for other foodstuffs; Delapore initially believes humans to be pigs. The appropriation of Petronius, then, is more subtle than a simple one-to-one correspondence. Lovecraft has identified an element in the presentation of cuisine in the Cena Trimalchionis: the disguise of foodstuffs so that they lose or conceal their original characteristics.