BUPALUS AND ATHENIS

bupalus and athenis, sons of archermus, and members of the celebrated school of sculpture in marble which flourished in chios in the 6th century b.c. they were contemporaries of the poet hipponax (about 540 b.c.), whom they were said to have caricatured. their works consisted almost entirely of draped female figures, artemis, fortune, the graces, whence the chian school has been well called a school of madonnas. augustus brought many of the works of bupalus and athenis to rome, and placed them on the gable of the temple of apollo palatinus.