Posted: Jun 05, 2015 12:15 pm
Clive Durdle wrote:Course it's true! I studied it at school!
http://www.fullbooks.com/Androcles-and-the-Lion.html
George Bernard Shaw seems to have drawn upon "The Acts of Paul", which itself draws on Aesop. Paul baptizers a talking lion in the wilderness and at the end of the story gets thrown to the lions in the arena. The talking lion, now a baptised Christian, saves Paul. Aesop strikes again. A satire on Paul by a nasty heretic.