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BUCHHEIT, V., Vergil über die Sendung Roms. Untersuchungen zum Bellum Poenicum und zur Aeneis. Carl Winter, Heidelberg, 1963. 216p. Original blue gilt titled cloth. Series: Gymnasium, Beihefte, Heft 3. 'This work consist of three parts. The first, and by far the longest, is on 'Juno's fight against Rome and her reconciliation.'(...) The second part is concerned with 'Dardanus the Roman' and Rome's Trojan inheritance as interpeted by Virgil. The last part points to parallels and contrasts between Book i and vii with a view to showing how the two books are bound together by means of the antithesis between Carthage and Rome. (...) Buchheit has evidently been influenced by Pöschl and his ideas about Virgil's use of symbolism. (...) The section on Naevius, though somewhat out of proportion in a book about Virgil, is important (...). Virgil, according to Buchheit, owed much to Naevius, more indeed (...) than to Ennius. Naevius has represented Rome as destined by the gods for world dominion and Carthage as rejected. His epic was 'filled with a belief in the roman peoples's consciousness of tis mission': Virgil carried the idea of this consciousness beyond the framework of the opposition of Rome and Carthage to which Naevius confined it. Buchheit presents his arguments with ability and thoroughness.' (M.L. CLARKE in The Classical Review (New Series), 1964, pp.282-284). € 35.00 (Antiquarian)