Not to be confused with John I of Antioch.
John Antiochus was a Byzantine chronicler who probably came from Antioch of Syria, and was active in the first half of the seventh century. It is known that he was the author of a universal Christian history, titled Ίστορία χρονική, which ranged from Adam to the early years of the rule of the emperor Heraclius. The author's dating, which is not very sure, is due mainly to the frequent in his work to the Breviarium de Eutropio that Juan Antioqueno knew through translations of Peanio and Captain of the seventh century. His work is known in a very fragmentary way, mainly through the volume of Excerpta Constantiniana of virtutibus et vitiis, insidiis, legationibus that was made in Constantinople in the middle of the tenth century and Codex Parisinus written by Salmasio. The main sources of his work were mainly the Breviarium of Eutropius, for the part from the foundation of Rome to Valentinian I and the chronography of John Malalas, for the part from the creation of the world to the war of Troy, but employed many others, Greek and Roman.
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