Horace his third book of elegies. His "Epistles" provided them both with a model for their own verse letters and it also shaped Ovid's exile poetry. His influence had a perverse aspect. As mentioned before, the brilliance of his "Odes" may have discouraged imitation. Conversely, they may have created a vogue for the lyrics of the archaic Greek poet Pindar, due to the fact that Horace had neglected that style of lyric (see Pindar#Influence and legacy). The iambic genre seems almost to have disappeared after publication of Horace's "Epodes". Ovid's "Ibis" was a rare attempt at the form but it was
Pauline epistles as it was common to attribute at that point in history. Seven letters (with consensus dates) considered genuine by most scholars: The letters on which scholars are about evenly divided: The letters thought to be pseudepigraphic by about 80% of scholars: Finally, Epistle to the Hebrews, though anonymous and not really in the form of a letter, has long been included among Paul's collected letters, but most scholars now regard it as not written by Paul. Paul's own writings are often thought to indicate several of his letters that have not been preserved: Pauline epistles The Pauline epistles, Epistles of