In John (Ioannes)
Tzetzes' work, Chiliades 7.167 we have related a story (sourced from Pausanias) on the founding, naming and initial construction at the Antioch site:
ὡς Παυσανίας γράφει μὲν ᾽Αντιοχείας κτίσει, /
κτίζεται ᾽Αντιόχεια Νικάτορι Σελεύκωι, / κατά τινας εἰς ὄνομα πατρὸς σφοῦ ᾽Αντιόχου,
/ (170) Λουκιανῶι δ᾽ εἰς ὄνομα υἱέος ᾽Αντιόχου, / τὸν ὃν Σωτῆρα ἔλεγον ... /
(174) ταύτην τὴν ᾽Αντιόχειαν Σέλευκος κτίζει πόλιν, / καὶ ἄλλας ἑβδομήκοντα καὶ
τέσσαρας δὲ πόλεις. / τοὺς δ᾽ ἀμαθῶς ᾽Αντίοχον λέγοντας ταύτην κτίσαι / ᾽Ατταῖός
τε καὶ Περιττᾶς, ᾽Αναξικράτης ἅμα / ἐλέγξουσι σαφέστατα καὶ δείξουσι ληροῦντας,
/ σὺν οἷς ᾽Ασκληπιόδωρος δὲ οἰκέτης τυγχάνων, / (180) οὓς τότε Σέλευκος ποιεῖ
κτισμάτων ἐπιστάτας.
"As Pausanias writes
on the foundation of Antioch, Antioch was
founded by Seleukos Nikator,/according to some, as the
namesake of his own father Antiochos,/(170) but according to
Lucian, as the namesake of his son Antiochos, the one whom they
called Soter . . . /(174) Seleukos founded that city of Antioch as
well as seventy-four other cities./But as for those who foolishly claim that it
was Antiochos who founded the city,/Attaios and Perittas, as well as Anaxikrates/will refute them most
wisely and will expose them to be nonsensical,/(alongside whom Asklepiadoros
happened to be a fellow-slave/ (180) and whom at the time Seleukos made the
supervisors of his buildings)".
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