Show Plot Androcles and the Lion

Authors: George Bernard Shaw

Time Period: Early Roman Empire

Setting: Rome and the Colosseum

Adapted From: Based on the Aesop Fable

Summary: 

Androcles and the Lion is an ancient fable popularized by Aesop, and famously adapted into a 1912 play by George Bernard Shaw. The story follows a kind, runaway slave who befriends a wild lion by removing a thorn from its paw, a deed the beast repays when their paths cross again in a Roman arena.