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  • Commentary

  • Augustus, Alison E. Cooley, University of Warwick
  • Book:
    <I>Res Gestae Divi Augusti</I>
    Published online:
    28 May 2018
    Print publication:
    14 May 2009, pp 102-278

  • Summary

    HEADING

    With this Latin heading, we perhaps start with an implicit statement that Augustus' deeds are worthy both of being recorded in history and of being celebrated in the highest form of poetry, epic. This might be indicated if the way in which the words rerum gestarum divi Augusti quibus orbem form a solemn spondaic hexameter verse is not purely coincidental (Koster (1978) 242; Hoeing (1908) 90; see 1.1n. exercitum privato consilio; 27.1n. Aegyptum).

    The heading at Ancyra is in much larger lettering (8–4 cm) than the rest of the inscription (2 cm), and extends over the first three columns of the text. At Antioch, the heading extends above the first two columns. The original inscription at Rome must also have had a similar heading (perhaps, taking our cue from Suetonius, index rerum gestarum divi Augusti quibus orbem terrarum imperio populi Romani subiecit et impensarum quas in rem publicam populumque Romanum fecit, ‘summary of the achievements of the deified Augustus, by which he made the world subject to the rule of the Roman people, and of the expenses which he incurred for the state and people of Rome’), since otherwise the start of the inscription, annos undeviginti natus (‘Aged nineteen years old’), is too abrupt (Koster (1978) 246). The grandeur of the language suggests that the heading was composed at Rome, even though not by Augustus himself.

Res Gestae Divi Augusti
  • Text, Translation, and Commentary
  • Augustus, Alison E. Cooley
  • Published online:
    28 May 2018
    Print publication:
    14 May 2009
  • At the end of his life the emperor Augustus wrote an account of his achievements in which he reviewed his rise to power, his conquest of the world and his unparalleled generosity towards his subjects. This edition provides a text, translation and detailed commentary - the first substantial one in English for more than four decades - which is suitable for use with students of all levels. The commentary deals with linguistic, stylistic and historical matters. It elucidates how Augustus understood his role in Roman society, and how he wished to be remembered by posterity; and it sets this picture that emerges from the Res Gestae into the context of the emergence both of a new visual language and of an official set of expressions. The book also includes illustrations in order to demonstrate how the Augustan era witnessed the rise of a whole new visual language.

  • Preface

  • Augustus, Alison E. Cooley, University of Warwick
  • Book:
    <I>Res Gestae Divi Augusti</I>
    Published online:
    28 May 2018
    Print publication:
    14 May 2009, pp xi-xi

  • Summary

    I'm glad to be able to take this opportunity to thank Graham Oliver, whose enthusiastic and congenial collaboration over a paper for the Triennial Conference on the RGDA initially inspired the idea of undertaking this project. I'd also like to acknowledge the role played by my students at Warwick, notably the three cohorts who have grappled the Augustan age with me, who often make me clarify my ideas, and generally help inspire me by their enthusiasm for the subject. Michael Sharp has been supportive of the book from start to finish, offering invaluable practical help. Three Cambridge University Press assessors made helpful suggestions in planning the shape of the book in its infancy; Stephen Mitchell and the other Cambridge University Press reader provided copious suggestions for guiding the original typescript towards maturity; I hope that they like what they find now. Any faults in the book remain the result of my oversight or stubbornness. For help in compiling the illustrations I'm indebted to Michael Sharp, Stephen Mitchell, and my father. I'm grateful to Richard Abdy of the British Museum for permission to reproduce some of the images of coins already to be found in the LACTOR sourcebook, The Age of Augustus, ed. M. G. L. Cooley. Family support has been crucial, and I'm incredibly fortunate to have such tolerant children, husband, parents, and mother-in-law. Among other things, I'd single out the constructive criticism and practical help from Melvin and my parents, and the innumerable hours of childcare undertaken by my mother-in-law.

  • 14 - Frontiers of image processing in medicine

  • from Part IV - Medical applications and ongoing developments
  • Geoff Dougherty
  • Book:
    Digital Image Processing for Medical Applications
    Published online:
    12 September 2018
    Print publication:
    09 April 2009, pp 395-398

  • Summary

    Overview

    The recent rapid advances in medical imaging and automated image analysis will continue and allow us to make significant advances in our understanding of life and disease processes, and our ability to deliver quality healthcare. A few of the synergistic developments involving a number of disciplines are highlighted.

    Learning objectives

    After reading this chapter you will be able to:

  • • recognize the limitations of current imaging technology;

  • • appreciate the trends and ongoing developments in medical imaging.

    • Trends

    “A picture is worth a thousand words.”

    The rapid advances of the last two or three decades in medical imaging technology, which have delivered high-resolution, three-dimensional anatomical and physiological images, is continuing apace, enabling ever more powerful advances in diagnosis and intervention. Improved, miniature detectors are pushing spatial resolution below 1 mm, which will require large computer memories and storage capacities and improved software capabilities to visualize the larger data sets interactively. Advances in post-processing, especially in automated registration, segmentation, classification and rendering, will be required (Van Leemput et al., 1999; Huber and Hebert, 2003; Way et al., 2006). The availability of multimodality imaging, such as combined CT/PET scanners, is increasing, along with the means to share such images around the clinical setting and remotely, fueling improvements in PACS and telemedicine systems (Section 4.3).

    The inverse problem

    A basic aspect of most imaging modalities is to reconstruct an image based on minimally invasive measurements from a number of sensors. The inverse problem determines the properties of the unknown system from the observed measurements. The goal of the reconstruction can be either structural information, such as the anatomy that comes from CT or MRI imaging, or functional information from nuclear medicine imaging or electrical impedance tomography (EIT). An important key feature of inverse problems is their ill-posedness, i.e. they do not fulfil classical requirements of existence, uniqueness and stability under data perturbations. The last aspect is especially important since in the real world measurements always contain noise; approximation methods for solving inverse problems with minimal sensitivity to noise, so-called regularization methods, are being studied.

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