Androcles and the Lion
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Androcles is the main character of a common folk tale about a man befriending a lion.
The slave Androcles plucks the thorn from the lion's paw.
We used to see Androcles with the lion attached to a slender leash, making the rounds of the city, a pen and wash drawing by Baldassare Peruzzi, 1530s
Poster for the Federal Theatre Project production of Shaw's Androcles and the Lion (1938)
Dooley Wilson as Androcles in the Federal Theatre Project production of Androcles and the Lion (1938)
The Lion and the Mouse
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The Lion and the Mouse is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 150 in the Perry Index. There are also Eastern variants of the story, all of which demonstrate mutual dependence regardless of size or status.
Androcles and the Lion
…Middle Ages as "The Shepherd and the Lion" and was then ascribed to Aesop's Fables. It is numbered 563 in the Perry Index and can be compared to Aesop's The Lion and the Mouse in both its general trend and in its moral of the reciprocal nature of mercy. The earliest surviving account of the Androcles episode is found in Aulus…
Woodcut showing two scenes from the fable in the Ysopu hystoriado, Seville 1521
Sculpture by Tom Otterness at the Beelden aan Zee museum
Lithograph in black pencil on cream-coloured background by John Doyle (artist), 1844