In the uproar in the moments immediately after Eutyches was excommunicated at the Home Synod of Constantinople on November 22, 448, the disgraced archimandrite tried to appeal to a council of the bishops of Rome, Alexandria, Jerusalem, and Thessalonica. His request was ignored, but soon after the synod, likely within weeks of it ending, Eutyches wrote letters to the bishops of these major sees making the same request. In his letter to Pope Leo of Rome – which alone survives of all those sent to the bishops, though they must have been very similar – Eutyches gives a fascinating account of the Home Synod from his perspective. Unsurprisingly, he depicts Flavian as corrupt and himself as the victim of a conspiracy to destroy him. His basic narrative does not deviate significantly from the sequence of events found in the acts of the seventh session of the Home Synod, but Eutyches gives further details and even mentions a few things that were not recorded in the official acts. For example, we learn that he had prepared a statement to read when he first appeared at his trial, which he calls a “profession of faith,” but Flavian disallowed it.