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ID: 901001415
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901001415
Record Type: Literature

Wolf and the Lamb (Aesop, fable)

Note: Fable of tyrannical injustice in which a victim, the lamb, is falsely accused and killed despite a reasonable defence.

Names:
Wolf and the Lamb (Aesop, fable) (preferred,English-P,D)

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)
................Wolf and the Lamb (Aesop, fable) (P)
Related Iconography:
is basis of .... Wolves and the Lamb
..........(Literature and Performing Arts, Named written and performed works, Literary works: Prose (novels, etc.), Fables (fables, La Fontaine, 1668/1694), Wolves and the Lamb (fable, La Fontaine, 1668/1694)) [901001429]

Other Relationships:
role/characteristic is .... fable
.....(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:
Wolf and the Lamb (Aesop, fable)
................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
Iconography Record Sources:
................ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)

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