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Vinony

Androcles and the lion

by George Bernard Shaw · February 28, 1963

Cover of Androcles and the lion
Popularity 13

Based on the fable about a Greek tailor's conversion to Christianity, his befriending of a lion, and gladiatorial experience in Nero's Coliseum.

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