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ID: 901001429
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901001429
Record Type: Literature

Wolves and the Lamb (fable, La Fontaine, 1668/1694)

Note: Fable based on Aesop, with lesson of tyrannical injustice in which a victim is falsely accused and killed despite a reasonable defense.

Display Date: 1668/1694

Names:
Wolves and the Lamb (fable, La Fontaine, 1668/1694) (preferred,English-P,D)

Hierarchical Position:
Literature and Performing Arts (P)
....<Named written and performed works> (P)
........<Literary works: Prose (novels, etc.)> (P)
............Fables (fables, La Fontaine, 1668/1694) (P)
................Wolves and the Lamb (fable, La Fontaine, 1668/1694) (P)
Related Iconography:
based on .... Wolf and the Lamb
..........(Literature and Performing Arts, Named written and performed works, Literary works: Prose (novels, etc.), Aesop's Fables (fables, Aesop, ca. 620/564 BCE (oral)), Wolf and the Lamb (Aesop, fable)) [901001415]

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)
topic is .... tyranny
.....(political ideologies and attitudes, political concepts, social science concepts, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) (AAT)
author is .... Fontaine, Jean de La (French poet, 1621-1695)
.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

Sources:
Wolves and the Lamb (fable, La Fontaine, 1668/1694)
................Getty Research Institute Special Collections Finding Aids (2005-)
Iconography Record Sources:
................ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)

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