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164. which he left to his two sons: Although from a legal perspective Aemilius died without sons of his own, he was free to dispose of his property as he pleased and in Rome the legal conditions of adoption did not annihilate the natural affections between fathers and their biological sons. The two brothers celebrated lavish funeral games in honour of their father, for which Terence’s comedy The Brothers was commissioned.
Further Reading
Recommended reading specific to each Life is given in the endnotes.
Good general introductions to Plutarch include D. A. Russell, Plutarch (1973), A. Wardman, Plutarch’s Lives (1974) and R. Lamberton, Plutarch (2001). Plutarch’s historical and cultural circumstances are well explained by Jones, P&R, and Swain, H&E. The most important critical studies of Plutarch’s Lives are Duff, Plutarch’s Lives, and Pelling, P&H. When reading the Lives, it is often helpful to consult G. J. D. Aalders, Plutarch’s Political Thought (1982). There is a valuable critical edition of Plutarch’s Lives, with French translation and concise but illuminating introductions and annotations, by R. Flacelière and E. Chambry, Plutarque, Vies, 16 vols. (1957–93). Of the many collections of essays dealing with Plutarch, the most important is B. Scardigli (ed.), Essays on Plutarch’s Lives (1995). Recent collections include J. Mossman (ed.), Plutarch and his Intellectual World (1997), P. A. Stadter and L. Van der Stockt (eds.), Sage and Emperor: Plutarch, Greek Intellectuals, and Roman Power in the Time of Trajan (98–117 AD) (2002), L. de Blois, J. Bons, T. Kessels and D. M. Schenkeveld (eds.), The Statesman in Plutarch’s Lives, 2 vols. (2004), and N. Humble (ed.), Plutarch’s Lives: Parallelism and Purpose (2010). On questions concerning Plutarch’s sources in his Roman Lives, the best place to begin is B. Scardigli, Die Römerbiographien Plutarchs: Ein Forschungsbericht (1979). A superb introduction to the habits of ancient historians more generally is L. Pitcher, Writing Ancient History: An Introduction to Classical Historiography (2009).
There are several very fine investigations of the Second Sophistic and the Greek response to imperial Rome, any sampling of which must include T. Whitmarsh, Greek Literature and the Roman Empire (2001), S. Goldhill (ed.), Being Greek under Rome: Cultural Identity, the Second Sophistic and the Development of Empire (2001), E. N. Ostenfeld (ed.), Greek Romans and Roman Greeks: Studies in Cultural Interaction (2002), and D. Konstan and S. Saïd (eds.), Greeks on Greekness: Viewing the Greek Past under Roman Rule (2006). A useful examination of the political and cultural setting of the time is C. Ando, Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire (2000).
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