ID: 901001314 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901001314	Record Type: Literature

	Aesop's Fables (fables, Aesop, ca. 620/564 BCE (oral))

Note: Collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE. Of diverse origins, the stories associated with his name have descended to modern times through a number of sources and continue to be reinterpreted in different verbal registers and in popular as well as artistic media. The fables originally belonged to the oral tradition and were not collected for some three centuries after Aesop’s death.

Names:

	Aesop's Fables (fables, Aesop, ca. 620/564 BCE (oral)) (preferred,English-P,D)
	Aesopica ( fables, Aesop, ca. 620/564 BCE) (Latin-P,D)
	Aesopica ( fables, Aesop, ca. 620/564 BCE) (English,U)

Hierarchical Position:

		Literature and Performing Arts (P)
		....<Named written and performed works> (P)
		........<Literary works: Prose (novels, etc.)> (P)
		............Aesop's Fables (fables, Aesop, ca. 620/564 BCE (oral)) (P)

Other Relationships:

	role/characteristic is .... fables
	.....(genres for literature, genres in literature and performing arts, concepts in the arts and humanities, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	author is .... Aesop (Greek fabulist, ca. 620-564 BCE )
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

Sources:

	Aesop's Fables (fables, Aesop, ca. 620/564 BCE (oral))
	................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
	................Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) accessed 31 May 2016
	Aesopica ( fables, Aesop, ca. 620/564 BCE)
	................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)