Androcles Classical accounts. Agostino Veneziano depicts the slave Androcles being freed by the Emperor in a work from 1516-17 now in the LACMA collection. There is also an early pen and wash drawing by Baldassare Peruzzi dating from the 1530s in the Hermitage Museum. Dependent on the account by Aulus Gellius, it depicts Androcles walking through a doorway with the lion on a lead at his heel. Other artists have preferred the scene of Androcles pulling the thorn from the lion's paw, as in Bernhard Rode's print of 1784. A later American example is Walter Inglis Anderson's block print scroll of
A Greek Slave other successful openings included "A Runaway Girl" and "The Belle of New York". The simple plot of the production was based around the tangled love lives and misunderstandings of a Roman household. The same themes and characterisations would resurface some 70 years later in the Broadway show "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" by Stephen Sondheim. "A Greek Slave" was in the unfortunate position of following "The Geisha", also by Sidney Jones. This was the biggest stage hit of its era. Therefore, "A Greek Slave "is often remembered as being the show that was not as