Did Greek traders visit the Philippines in the 1st century AD?
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History of Panay was published by Central Philippine University (Jaro, Iloilo City). I'll leave the interpretation up to you other than to say there's nothing here to support the question's claim. From page 77-78:
The early Filipinos had trade relations with the neighboring countries of Borneo, China, Japan, and Siam. Business was carried on chiefly by barter. Long before the time of Columbus, Filipinos were already known in Mecca, Egypt, the Balkans, Macedonia, and England as "traders from the East."
As early as A.D. 31 the Ptolemy of Egypt, according to the records of ancient geographers, had knowledge of the traders from the East who were reputed to be honest, intelligent, healthy in their earnest dealings. These traders were known as "Manila-men" because they came from "Manila" or "Maniola", names encountered in the records of the most ancient geographers. The word "Manila" or "Maynila", according to the Chinese geographer Chau-Ju-Kua, came from the word "Mai", the name of all islands north of Borneo....
These traders exported to Egypt sinamay cloth, wax, mirrors, silk, sulphur, gold, silver, and pearls. They established their trading bases on the Koramandel and Malabar coasts....
Professor Austin Craig, eminent student of Philippine history, said that the ancient traders of the Philippines exported sinamay cloth to Greece in A.D. 21 and Strabo, a Roman geographer of the First Century, referred to the commodity as "Ta see sika", or 'flex combed from the trees'. Manila hemp was well known to the Caesars of Rome, and sinamay cloth was once sold to the museum of Dresden, Germany for its antiquity.
San Francisco Public Library got me a copy from University of Nevada, Reno, where it is inexplicably filed under Basque Studies. Somewhat unusually for a library book, this copy contains a bit of its own provenance in the form of a formal receipt showing that it cost 30 pesos cash in 1977.
As for Austin Craig, he wrote A Thousand Years of Philippine History Before the Coming of the Spaniards, which discusses these links in rather oblique language on the very first page. Enjoy.
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what do you think about the Greek armors found in Mindanao https://www.greecehighdefinition.com/blog/2019/6/28/ancient-greek-armour-in-the-philippines
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Since embassies from the Roman and the Byzantine empires are recorded to have arrived in China on a few occasions, It was obviously possible for persons to travel overland from Roman territory to China, or to travel from Roman territory to India in Greco-Roman ships and then get other transportation to eventually arrive in China from the south, and thus by sea.
Thus it was obviously possible for individuals of Greek or other ethnicity from Roman territory to arrive at the Philippines in antiquity, and some might have actually reached some specific city in the Philippines at some specific date. So the claim that Greek or Roman traders visited Cebu in the Philippines in 21 AD is certainly possible, but unproven without more evidence than you have found so far.
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