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ANTIOCHUS, the king, developed an incestuous passion for his daughter in the romance, Apollonius of Tyre. Gower tells his version in Confessio Amantis VII.271-2008.

The Man of Law says that Chaucer has not told this story, MLI 81-88, and gives a brief summary. The detail that Antiochus threw his daughter 'upon the pavement' is not in Gower's version of the story. [Gower: Tyro Appollonius]

The name occurs in final rhyming position, MLI 82.

John Gower, The Complete Works, ed. G.C. Macaulay, III: 393-440; Riverside Chaucer, ed. L. Benson, 856.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
Published by Garland Publishing, Inc., New York and London.
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