Alice König

Alice König is a British historian. She is Director of the Centre for the Literatures of the Roman Empire at the University of St Andrews and lectures in Latin and Classical Studies.[1]

Biography

König studied for her BA and MPhil at King's College, Cambridge, and her PhD at St. John's College, Cambridge.[1] She was the chair of the research network for Literary Interactions under Nerva, Trajan & Hadrian, a British Academy funded project,[2] and is now co-running a research project on Visualising War: Interplay between Battle Narratives in Ancient and Modern Cultures. König is a member of the Young Academy of Scotland (YAS) established by the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2011, and in 2018 she was elected as co-chair 2019–2020.[3][4] The organisation provides mid-career professionals with a platform to challenge social issues in Scotland and the wider world. König is particularly involved in YAS projects on Responsible Debate and the future of tertiary education in Scotland. She has written for The Scotsman,[5] serves on the Royal Society of Edinburgh's Human Rights Committee, and is a Community Ambassador for the charity Book Aid International.

König has appeared on the BBC Radio 4 In Our Time panel as an expert on "Agrippina the Younger" (2016), "Pliny the Younger" (2013) and "Vitruvius' De Architectura" (2012).[1][6][7][8]

Selected publications

  • König, Alice and Whitton, Christopher (2018) Roman Literature under Nerva, Hadrian and Trajan: literary interactions, AD 96-138 (Cambridge University Press)
  • König, Alice (2018) 'Reading Civil War in Frontinus' Strategemata: a case study for Flavian Literary Studies', in After 69 CE: Writing Civil War in Flavian Rome. ed. / Lauren Donovan Ginsberg; Darcy A Krasne. de Gruyter, p. 145-178
  • König, Alice (2016), "Conflicting Models of Authority and Expertise in Frontinus' Strategemata", in König, Jason; Woolf, Greg (eds.), Authority and expertise in ancient scientific culture, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-1107060067
  • König, Alice (2013), "Frontinus' cameo role in Tacitus' Agricola", Classical Quarterly, 63: 361–376, doi:10.1017/S0009838812000705, hdl:10023/12058, ISSN 0009-8388
  • König, Alice (2009), "From Architect to Imperator: Vitruvius and his Addressee in the De Architectura", in Taub, Liba Chaia; Doody, Aude (eds.), Authorial voices in Greco-Roman technical writing, AKAN-Einzelschriften, Bd. 7., Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, ISBN 978-3868211818
  • König, Alice (2007), "Knowledge and power in Frontinus' On Aqueducts", in König, Jason; Whitmarsh, Tim (eds.), Ordering knowledge in the Roman Empire, Cambridge, ISBN 9780521859691

References

  1. ^ a b c "Dr Alice König, School of Classics". University of St Andrews. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  2. ^ "Literary Interactions under Nerva, Trajan & Hadrian - Research publications". University of St Andrews. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  3. ^ "Our Relationship with the Royal Society of Edinburgh". Youngacademyofscotland.org.uk. 15 November 2016. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  4. ^ "Alice König elected as co-chair of the Young Academy of Scotland". St Andrews Classics. 19 December 2018. Retrieved 19 October 2019.
  5. ^ "World needs to shout about scholars silenced by the state – Dr Alice König". www.scotsman.com. Retrieved 19 October 2019.
  6. ^ "BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Agrippina the Younger". BBC. 31 March 2016. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  7. ^ "BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Pliny the Younger". BBC. 12 December 2013. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  8. ^ "BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Vitruvius and De Architectura". BBC. 15 March 2012. Retrieved 9 December 2016.