# The Phoenix and the Mirror

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- Book: [The Phoenix and the Mirror](https://www.bookquiver.com/avram-davidson/the-phoenix-and-the-mirror) ([The Phoenix and the Mirror.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/avram-davidson/the-phoenix-and-the-mirror.md))
- Authors: [Avram Davidson](https://www.bookquiver.com/avram-davidson)
- Publisher: Gollancz
- ISBN: 978-05-7513-038-8
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2013-12-12
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Legend has it that Virgil, author of THE AENEID, was more than a mere poet. Legend has it that he was an adventurer, an alchemist - a magus. Driven to do the bidding of Queen Cornelia of Carsus, who has taken hostage part of his soul, Virgil embarks upon an attempt to create a virgin speculum - a magic mirror - so that Cornelia can locate her kidnapped daughter. Virgil's quest to assemble this artefact takes him across the ancient world to encounter powers and prophecies, gods and monsters - all the myths and legends of a time that never was. The time of Virgil Magus.