Talk:Androcles

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[edit] Judeo-Xtian parallels

1. I made no reference to "St. Jerome and the Lion", tho it clearly belongs here: it's a barefaced ripoff of the pagan story, but i'm not about to do the research that keeps that from being WP:OR, and then have to labor over avoiding accusations of PoV.
2. I suspect there should also be some discussion of "Daniel in the Lions' Den", which predates Apion. Apion knew the Jews of Alexandria, claimed to be an expert on the Jews, and hated them enuf to plausibly be as hot to rip off the Daniel story (if he knew it) for pagan purposes as the Christian generations following Jerome were to rip off the pagan one. In fact, could this have been a means of debunking the Daniel story, by making "lying down with lions" sound mundane rather than as obviously miraculous as the authors of Daniel and Isaiah meant it to sound? (Surely i'm not the first to think of this!)
   --Jerzy•t 03:23, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
   

• Honestly, I don't think there are any ties between Androcles and Daniel (based on the stories we have of them). Daniel was simply thrown to lions and saved by an act of God, whereas Androcles earned his favor with the lion. Asinine17 (talk) 20:42, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Overly Complex Phrasing

I changed "a character, not unambiguously fictional, in tales that describe him as a slave" to "a character, who may not have been entirely fictional, in tales that describe him as a slave." I realize that this dumbs-down the sentence a little, but "not unambiguously" is an over confusing double negative.
--l1nk3