The Roman Republican imperatorial salutation was an influential ritual during the late Republican period. This ritual has received little attention over the last 50 years since Robert Combès released his now seminal book on the title of imperator. In this thesis, I argue for why multiple of the topics covered in that book require a re-examination, in particular the arguments surrounding the possible first salutations. This encompasses a thorough examination of the potential salutation of Quinctius Poenus, Combès’ arguments concerning the salutation of Scipio Africanus, and my own theory as to who the recipient of this ritual acclamation was. This thesis covers the second century BCE and how the socio-economic, political, and military changes of that period were reflected in the growth and increasing popularity of the imperatorial salutation. Finally, it delves into the first century BCE and the effects that the major figures of that time had on the development of this ritual as it changed along with Rome’s transition from a Republican system to a principate. / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA)

Le tablinum est une salle que l’on trouve dans presque toutes les demeures du monde romain : il s’agit de la pièce principale de l’atrium, entièrement ouverte sur celui-ci et située au terme de son axe longitudinal, en face de l’entrée. Son étymologie dérive du terme latin tabula, signifiant tablette, registre de comptes. On a donc déduit qu’il s’agissait d’un espace servant à conserver les documents administratifs et juridiques de la famille, inscrits sur ces tablettes et réunis sous forme d’archives. Les sources latines confirment, par ailleurs, cette hypothèse. Le tablinum serait alors un réceptacle de la mémoire officielle de la familia. Il existe toujours, néanmoins, plusieurs interprétations contradictoires sur la nature du tablinum, sa définition, son apparition dans la maison romaine ainsi que sur son évolution architecturale et stylistique. À travers les témoignages du genre les mieux conservés du monde romain : ceux de la cité campanienne de Pompéi, nous tentons dans la présente étude de retracer l’histoire du tablinum romain, son origine étrusque, ses différentes formules et articulations, d’exposer toute la gamme de décors qui ornaient ses murs et de revenir sur les différentes fonctions qu’il put occuper au cours des siècles. / The tablinum is a room found in almost all homes in the Roman world: it is the main room of the atrium, fully open on it and located at the end of its longitudinal axis, in front of the entrance. Its etymology derives from the Latin word tabula, meaning tablet, account register. It was therefore deduced that this was a space used to store the family’s administrative and legal documents, inscribed on these tablets and collected in the form of archives. Moreover, Latin sources confirm this hypothesis. The tablinum would then be a receptacle of the official memory of the familia. There are still, however, several contradictory interpretations about the nature of the tablinum, its definition, its appearance in Roman houses as well as its architectural and stylistic evolution. In this study, through the best-preserved testimonies of the Roman world – those found in the Campanian city of Pompei –we attempt to retrace the history of the Roman tablinum, its Etruscan origin, its different forms and articulations, to expose all the range of decorations that adorned his walls and to rediscover the different functions that it could occupy over the centuries.

Recent developments in embedded systems give robots access to the Internet and make them more flexible and capable of performing more complex applications. However, these robots are still limited in terms of size, CPU power, storage resources and memory. Consequently, these robots have only been manufactured for certain specific applications and cannot be re-used for other applications. This presents us with a challenge to design a software framework - Robot Colony. The Robot Colony enables robots to be suitable for a wide range of applications, not originally received from manufacturers, to achieve greater functionality, flexibility and utility. This research outlines the architecture and functionality of the Robot Colony to support the collaboration between devices in the P2P community and also analyse the JXTA platform, which was the framework originally proposed. Lastly we present a customized P2P architecture that specifically addresses the interaction betweensoftware components across the network. We further discuss the following technologies applied in theframework: * XML-based Directory Service Provider * HTTP-based publish/describe control commands * Remote Process Invoke To fully complete the project, a thorough evaluation of the framework based on either the JXTAplatform or the customized P2P channel has been conducted. This evaluation provides basic statistics data for the proposed framework design and implementation. Further more, we have presented a realtime Demo at the Smart Device lab of the Queensland University of Technology.

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