androcles

     

Anrocles (or Androclus), is a character, who may not have been entirely fictional, in tales that describe him as a slave in the Roman Empire in the early 1st century CE, about the time of Tiberius but possibly in the reign of Caligula.

Trivia about androcles

  • He was spared by a lion he had de-thorned
  • For the stage there are kids' versions & a 1913 adult version of the story of this guy & a grateful lion
  • Roman slave famous for broaching a "thorny" subject with a lion
  • 1912:"...and the Lion"

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