Vibullia Alcia Agrippina (early 80’s -by 170) was a Greek Aristocrat and Heiress

Greeks

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 that lived in the Roman Empire

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Vibullia 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 . She was the daughter 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....

 . She had a brother Lucius Vibullius Hipparchus

Lucius Vibullius Hipparchus

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, who served as an Archon of Athens

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 in 99-100. Vibullia was born and raised in Athens.

Before 100, Vibullia married her 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...

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Vibullia bore Claudius Atticus three children who were:

• Son, Lucius Vibullius Hipparchus Tiberius Claudius Atticus Herodes, otherwise known as Herodes Atticus
  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...
  
  , 101
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  -177
  177
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• Son, Tiberius Claudius Atticus Herodianus
• Daughter, 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...
  
  

Herodes Atticus with his wife, the Roman Aristocrat Aspasia Annia Regilla

Aspasia Annia Regilla

Aspasia Annia Regilla, full name Appia Annia Regilla Atilia Caucidia Tertulla , was a wealthy, aristocratic and influential Roman woman, who was a distant relative of several Roman Emperors and Roman Empresses. She was the wife of the prominent Greek Herodes Atticus .-Genealogy:Regilla was born...

, had erected a great outdoor nymphaeum

Nymphaeum

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 (a monumental fountain) at Olympia, Greece

Olympia, Greece

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. The monumental fountain features statues and honors members of the ruling imperial family, relatives of Herodes Atticus and his wife. Among the statues is a statue of Vibullia. The statue bust of Vibullia is on display at the Archaeological Museum of Olympia .

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