Bupalus
Role: maker of a statue of Fortune · First appears: Book 4 · Chapter 30
Life events
- Bupalus made the first known statue of Fortune.(Book 4 · Chapter 30 · 📍 Pharæ)
- With: Fortune
- “But Bupalus, a man of wonderful ability in building temples and making models of animals, is the first person we know of that made a statue of Fortune.”
- Bupalus created golden Graces for the temple of the Nemeses.(Book 9 · Chapter 35 · 📍 Smyrna)
- “where above the other statues are some golden Graces by Bupalus.”
- Bupalus created Graces for Attalus’s bed-chamber.(Book 9 · Chapter 35 · 📍 Pergamus)
- With: Attalus
- “The people of Pergamus have also, in the bed-chamber of Attalus, the Graces by Bupalus.”
- Artists later changed the Graces’ representation from draped to naked.(Book 9 · Chapter 35 · 📍 Pergamus)
- “but artists afterwards, I know not why, changed this presentation of them: and in my day both sculptured them and painted them as naked.”
Book 4 · Chapter 30
- with Fortune (interaction) “Bupalus, a man of wonderful ability in building temples and making models of animals, is the first person we know of that made a statue of Fortune”
Book 9 · Chapter 35
- with Attalus (Graces made by Bupalus were located in Attalus's bed-chamber.) “The people of Pergamus have also, in the bed-chamber of Attalus, the Graces by Bupalus.”
Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.