Satires (Juvenal) formal literary genre rather than being simply clever, humorous critique in no particular format. Juvenal wrote in this tradition, which originated with Lucilius and included the Sermones of Horace and the Satires of Persius. In a tone and manner ranging from irony to apparent rage, Juvenal criticizes the actions and beliefs of many of his contemporaries, providing insight more into value systems and questions of morality and less into the realities of Roman life. The author employs outright obscenity less frequently than Martial or Catullus, but the scenes painted in his text are no less vivid or lurid for that
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