''The Scarlet Fig: or, Slowly through a Land of Stone'', is a
fantasy novel written by American writer
Avram Davidson, edited by Grania Davis and Henry Wessells, published in hardcover by Rose Press in 2005. An ebook edition was published by Prologue Press in August 2012.
It is the third and final novel of the author's Vergil Magus
sequence, following ''
The Phoenix and the Mirror
''The Phoenix and the Mirror, or, The Enigmatic Speculum'' is a fantasy novel by American writer Avram Davidson, the first volume in his Vergil Magus series. It was first published in hardcover by Doubleday in February 1969, with the first paperba ...
'' (1969) and ''Vergil in Averno'' (1987). It follows Vergil's adventures in an alternate ancient Mediterranean world where
harpies
In Greek mythology and Roman mythology, a harpy (plural harpies, , ; lat, harpȳia) is a half-human and half-bird personification of storm winds. They feature in Homeric poems.
Descriptions
They were generally depicted as birds with the head ...
,
basilisks, and
satyrs co-exist with
Rome,
Carthage, and the
Punic Wars
The Punic Wars were a series of wars between 264 and 146BC fought between Roman Republic, Rome and Ancient Carthage, Carthage. Three conflicts between these states took place on both land and sea across the western Mediterranean region and i ...
. The books are not written in chronological order, and in fact the second and third are prequels to the first.
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Novels by Avram Davidson
2005 American novels
2005 fantasy novels
American science fiction novels
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