Two boys, one a prince and one a poor boy, change places
Don Diego de la Vega opposes the corrupt tyrants of Spanish California as the masked swordsman, Zorro
A masked vigilante battles a corrupt commandant by night while masquerading as an aristocrat by day
Pythias, a liberal Athenian who believes all men are brothers, is condemned to death by Dionysus, the tyrant of Syracuse, who finds this view dangerous However, Dionysus allows Pythias to return to Athens to visit