Publius Aelius Vibullius Rufus was a Greek Aristocrat

Greeks

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 that lived in the 2nd century in the Roman Empire

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Aelius Rufus 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 Lucius Vibullius Hipparchus

Lucius Vibullius Hipparchus

Lucius Vibullius Hipparchus was a Greek Aristocrat that lived in the second half of the 1st century and the first half of the 2nd century in the Roman Empire....

 who served as an Archon of Athens

Archon of Athens

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 in 99-100 and his unnamed Greek wife. His paternal grandparents were 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....

, while his paternal aunt was 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...

 and paternal uncle was the Roman Senator

Roman Senate

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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 paternal cousins was the prominent Greek Sophist Lucius Vibullius Hipparchus Tiberius Claudius Atticus Herodes

Herodes Atticus

Lucius Vibullius Hipparchus Tiberius Claudius Atticus Herodes, otherwise known as Herodes Atticus was a very distinguished, rich Greek aristocrat who served as a Roman Senator and a Sophist. He is notable as a proponent in the Second Sophistic by Philostratus.-Ancestry and Family:Herodes Atticus...

; his brother Tiberius Claudius Atticus Herodianus and his sister Claudia Tisamenis

Claudia Tisamenis

Claudia Tisamenis was a Greek Aristocratic woman that lived in the 2nd century in the Roman Empire-Ancestry and Family:Tisamenis was of Athenian descent. Her ancestry can be traceable to the Athenian noble woman Elpinice . She had an ancestor four generations removed from her called Polycharmus...

. Aelius Rufus was born and raised in Athens.

Aelius Rufus served as an Archon of Athens

Archon of Athens

This is a list of the eponymous archons of Athens.-Background:The archon was the chief magistrate in many Greek cities, but in Athens there was a council of archons which comprised a form of executive government...

 in 143-144. Aelius Rufus married an unnamed Greek woman, by whom he had a son called Lucius Vibullius Rufus

Lucius Vibullius Rufus (son-in-law of Herodes Atticus)

Lucius Vibullius Rufus, sometimes known as Lucius Vibullius Hipparchus, was a Greek aristocrat who lived in the 2nd century in the Roman Empire....

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