Editing Apologue (section)

==Origins==
The origin of the apologue is extremely ancient and comes from the [[Middle East]] and its surrounding area (Persia, Asia Minor, Egypt, etc.), which is the Classical fatherland of everything connected with [[allegory]], [[metaphor]] and [[imagination]]. Veiled truth was often necessary in the Middle East, particularly among the [[slave]]s, who dared not reveal their minds too openly. The two fathers of apologue in the West were slaves, namely [[Aesop]] and [[Phaedrus (fabulist)|Phaedrus]]. Leading later writers of apologues were [[Giambattista Basile]] in Italy; [[La Fontaine]] in France; [[John Gay]] and [[Robert Dodsley]] in England; [[Christian Fürchtegott Gellert]], [[Gotthold Ephraim Lessing]] and [[Friedrich von Hagedorn]] in Germany; [[Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa|Tomas de Iriarte]] in Spain; [[Ivan Krylov]] in Russia and [[Leonid Hlibov]] in Ukraine.<ref name="EB1911"/>