Hans Georg Beck, Cyril Mango, Athanasios Kominis, Hubert Hunger: Lectures on Byzantine literature. She was often expected to give answers to questions that she did not ask herself, to meet new expectations from literature that never interested her. How to approach this huge, complex and often confusing literary heritage, how to read it at all? In the collection "Lectures on Byzantine Literature", some of the greatest names in Byzantology of the second half of the 20th century try to give the modern reader guidelines for asking the right questions, to encourage him to reconsider the numerous prejudices that have settled down in recent centuries, to point out values where usually no one looked for and expected them, in other words - they help him to better understand the Byzantine learned man, regardless of what talents he had, in the context of the complex system of rules in which he created. The fact that the collection, apart from one text, consists of lectures, makes it more communicative, which in the case of topics with which an extremely small number of people meet regularly (Byzantine rhetoric, poetry and the like), is of no small importance.