Career
Lucius Vibullius Hipparchus was the son born to the Aristocrat Lucius Vibullius Rufus and the noblewoman Athenais. He had an elder paternal half brother called Lucius Vibullius Claudius Herodes. The parents of Hipparchus were paternal second cousins.
Through his late maternal grandmother, Hipparchus was a relative to the family of the Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius and the Roman Empress Faustina the Elder.
Shortly after his birth Athenais had died. He was born and raised in Athens.
According to surviving inscriptions, Lucius Vibullius Hipparchus is the only recorded grandchild of Herodes Atticus and Aspasia Annia Regilla. Apart from Hipparchus, there is a possibility that Herodes Atticus and Aspasia Annia Regilla could have other grandchildren from their other children's marriages.
Not much is known on the life of Hipparchus.