Also published Dunedin : University of Otago Press, 1976.

New Zealand author.

Includes indexes.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-216).

Preliminary Material -- Homer, Virgil’s model, as the ‘educator’ of Greece and Rome -- The Picture of the Universe of an educated Roman in the first century B.C. -- The Cosmos as described by Anchises -- The Spheres of the Cosmos and the Beings living in them -- The Phases in the movement of the cosmos -- First Phase -- Second Phase (1.657-5.603) -- Third Phase (5.604-7.285) -- Fourth Phase (7.286-12.133, 215) -- Fifth Phase: 12.134, 216-end -- The plot of the Aeneid and the Gods in it -- ira and furor -- The Nisus and Euryalus Episode in the Aeneid (9.176ff) -- Notes on pages XL-4 -- General Index.

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