[1] In 602, Eustratios finished a biography of the Persian Christian saint Golinduch.
[4] A Latin translation of this work De statu animarum post mortem was reprinted in 1841.
[5] It was written between 582 and 602, possibly in or about 593–594, when there arose in Constantinople a controversy over some miracles attributed to Euphemia.
[6] Gregory the Great's Dialogues, composed around the same time, deal with similar themes as Eustratios' Refutation.
[3] Other Byzantine writers opposing Christian mortalism were John the Deacon, Niketas Stethatos, Philip Monotropos (Dioptra pp.