Editing Lyric poetry (section)

====Rome====
Among the major surviving [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] poets of the classical period, only [[Catullus]] ({{lang|la|Carmina}} [[Catullus 11|11]], [[Catullus 17|17]], [[Catullus 30|30]], [[Catullus 34|34]], [[Catullus 51|51]], [[Catullus 61|61]]) and [[Horace]] (''[[Odes (Horace)|Odes]]'') wrote lyric poetry,{{cn|date=November 2023}} which was instead read or recited.{{cn|date=November 2023}} What remained were the forms, the lyric meters of the Greeks adapted to Latin. Catullus was influenced by both archaic and [[Hellenistic]] Greek verse and belonged to a group of Roman poets called the ''[[Neoteroi]]'' ("New Poets") who spurned [[epic poetry]] following the lead of [[Callimachus]]. Instead, they composed brief, highly polished poems in various thematic and metrical genres.  The Roman love elegies of [[Tibullus]], [[Propertius]], and [[Ovid]] (''[[Amores (Ovid)|Amores]]'', ''[[Heroides]]''), with their personal phrasing and feeling, may be the thematic ancestor of much medieval, Renaissance, Romantic, and modern lyric poetry, but these works were composed in [[elegiac couplets]] and so were not lyric poetry in the ancient sense.<ref>
{{cite book
 |last1=Bing |first1=P.
 |display-authors=etal
 |year=1991
 |title=Games of Venus: An anthology of Greek and Roman erotic verse from Sappho to Ovid
 |place=New York, NY
 |publisher=Routledge
}}
</ref>