Displaying the Res Gestae of Augustus: A Monument of Imperial Image for All Author(s): Suna Güven Reviewed work(s): Source: Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 57, No. 1 (Mar., 1998), pp. 30- 45 Published by: University of California Press on behalf of the Society of Architectural Historians Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/991403 . Accessed: 26/01/2012 09:51 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
[email protected]. University of California Press and Society of Architectural Historians are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. http://www.jstor.org Displayingthe Res Gestae of Augustus A Monumentof ImperialImage for All most literal sense, it is basically a catalogue of the achieve- SUNA GLIVEN,Middle East TechnicalUniversity, Ankara ments of the Divine Augustus. Looking at it another way, we R oman inscriptions, and others, are usually studied as could say that it starts off as an altruistic record of the first extual documents that recordhistory. In this traditional Roman emperor and his performance designed by a "memory approach, specialists in epigraphy literally translate the written entrepreneur," to use a term coined by James Young.4 Follow- text so that it becomes, on its own, the veritable evidence for ing the last injunction of the emperor, who died on 19 August what it records.