Few of his writings have been recovered in their entirety; the latest edition is by Markus Vinzent).
He is said to have relapsed into paganism during the persecution under Maximian in 304 and thus, though received again into the church by Lucian and supported by the Eusebian party, never attained to ecclesiastical office.
[2] His extant works include a Commentary on the Psalms made up of 31 sermons , a letter to Eusebius, the Syntagmation, and a few fragments.
[3] Fragments of his Syntagmation are preserved by Athanasius of Alexandria and Marcellus of Ancyra.
Asterius was a firm defender of Arianism and Eusebius of Caesarea's theology, emphasising the derivative nature of the Son as a spontaneous manifestation and generation of the Father's will.