Item
Androcles and the Lion
- Title
- en_US Androcles and the Lion
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)
- en_US First edition
- en_US Retold by Dennis Nolan
- Creator
- en_US Nolan, Dennis See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Nolan, Dennis
- Date
- 2016-01-25T16:30:35Z
- en_US 1999-12
- en_US 1997
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T16:30:35Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1997
- Abstract
- en_US A very nice book. There is a great illustration of Androcles encountering the lion for the first time and seeing his huge teeth. With eyes wide open he reels backward. Another great illustration comes soon afterwards, when the lion sleeps with Androcles likewise asleep against the lion's side and back. The two live together peacefully for three years. When Androcles is captured, the lion is nowhere to be seen. Androcles' master rejects him and lets him be taken to Rome to be thrown to the beasts in the Circus Maximus. Tiberius surprises me twice when he first lets the people decide Androcles' fate and again when he then has Tiberius' story written on tablets and carried about the circus. An author's note traces the story from Apion through Aulus Gellius into print.
- Identifier
- en_US 152033556
- en_US 3304 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Harcourt Brace & Company
- en_US San Diego, CA
- Subject
- en_US PZ8.2.N85 An 1997 See all items with this value
- en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books