'questions and answers'), singular erotapokrisis (ἐρωταπόκρισις), is a genre of Byzantine literature.
Topics touched upon include Christian dogma, biblical exegesis, canon law and riddles.
The answers are generally presented as gnomai, dogmatic truths.
Among the Greek authors of the genre are Maximus the Confessor, John of Damascus, Anastasius of Sinai, Nicholas of Methone, Nicetas of Heraclea, Symeon of Thessalonica and Mark of Ephesus.
[1] The earliest translations were made in the First Bulgarian Empire, the most important being that of Anastasius of Sinai's Interrogationes et responsiones.