Atticus had had ordered her beaten to death; the emperor Marcus Aurelius exonerated his old tutor of his wife's murder. Herodes Atticus was the teacher of three notable students: Achilles, Memnon and Polydeuces (Polydeukes). "The aged Herodes Atticus in a public paroxysm of despair at the death of his perhaps eromenos Polydeukes, commissioned games, inscriptions and sculptures on a lavish scale and then died, inconsolable, shortly afterwards." Herodes Atticus had a distinguished reputation for his literary work, most of which is now lost, and was a philanthropist and patron of public works. He funded a number of building projects, including: The Panathenaic Stadium – Athens Odeon – Athens; built to honor the memory of his wife A theater at Corinth A stadium at Delphi The baths at Thermopylae An aqueduct at Canusium in Italy An aqueduct at Alexandria Troas A nymphaeum (monumental fountain) with his wife at Olympia various benefactions to the peoples of Thessaly, Epirus Euboea, Boeotia and Peloponnesus He also contemplated cutting a canal through the Isthmus of Corinth, but was deterred from carrying out the plan because the same thing had been unsuccessfully attempted before by the emperor Nero. Throughout his life, Herodes Atticus had a stormy relationship with the citizens of Athens, but before he died he was reconciled with them. When he died, the citizens of Athens gave him an honored burial, his funeral taking place in the Panathinaiko Stadium in Athens, which he had commissioned. Children Regilla bore Herodes Atticus six children, of whom three survived to adulthood. Their children were: Son, Claudius – born and died in 141 Daughter, Elpinice – born as Appia Annia Claudia Atilia Regilla Elpinice Agrippina Atria Polla, 142–165 Daughter, Athenais (Marcia Annia Claudia Alcia Athenais Gavidia Latiaria), married Lucius Vibullius Rufus. They had a son, Lucius Vibullius Hipparchus, the only recorded grandchild of Herodes Atticus. Son, Atticus Bradua – born in 145 as Tiberius Claudius Marcus Appius Atilius Bradua Regillus Atticus Son, Regillus – born as Tiberius Claudius Herodes Lucius Vibullius Regillus, 150–155 Unnamed child who died with Regilla or died even perhaps three months later in 160 After Regilla died in 160, Herodes Atticus never married again. When he died in 177, his son Atticus Bradua and his grandchildren survived him. Sometime after his wife's death, he adopted his cousin's first grandson Lucius Vibullius Claudius Herodes as his son. Legacy Herodes Atticus and his wife Regilla, from