Lucius Vibullius Hipparchus was a Greek Aristocrat

Greeks

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 that lived in the second half of the 1st century and the first half of the 2nd century in the Roman Empire

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Hipparchus was a Greek of Athenian

Athens

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 descent and was a member of a very wealthy family who were prominent in Athens. He was the son of the Athenian Aristocrats, Claudia Alcia and Lucius Vibullius Rufus

Lucius Vibullius Rufus

Lucius Vibullius Rufus sometimes known as Vibullius Rufus was a Greek Aristocratic that lived in the second half of the 1st century and the first half of the 2nd century in the Roman Empire....

. He had a sister called Vibullia Alcia Agrippina

Vibullia Alcia Agrippina

Vibullia Alcia Agrippina was a Greek Aristocrat and Heiress that lived in the Roman Empire.Vibullia was a Greek of Athenian descent and was a member of a very wealthy family who were prominent in Athens . She was the daughter of the Athenian Aristocrats, Claudia Alcia and Lucius Vibullius Rufus...

 who married their uncle the Roman Senator

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 Tiberius Claudius Atticus Herodes

Tiberius Claudius Atticus Herodes (suffect consul 132)

Tiberius Claudius Atticus Herodes was a distinguished Greek aristocrat of the Roman Empire.- Origin and life :Claudius Atticus was a Greek of Athenian descent. As he bears the Roman family name, Claudius, there is a possibility that a paternal ancestor of his, received Roman citizenship, from an...

. His known grandparent is his maternal grandfather the Athenian Aristocrat Hipparchus. Hipparchus was born and raised in Athens. Hipparchus served as an Archon of Athens

Archon of Athens

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 in 99-100.

Hipparchus married an unnamed Greek woman by whom he had a son called Publius Aelius Vibullius Rufus

Publius Aelius Vibullius Rufus

Publius Aelius Vibullius Rufus was a Greek Aristocrat that lived in the 2nd century in the Roman Empire.Aelius Rufus was a Greek of Athenian descent and was a member of a very wealthy family who were prominent in Athens. He was the son of Lucius Vibullius Hipparchus who served as an Archon of...

 who served as an Archon of Athens

Archon of Athens

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in 143-144 and could have another possible son called Vibullius Polydeukion.

Sources

• Day, J., An economic history of Athens under Roman domination, Ayers Company Publishers, 1973
• Graindor, P., Un milliardaire antique, Ayers Company Publishers, 1979
• Wilson, N.G., Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece, Routledge 2006