Alice König is a British historian. She is Director of the Centre for the Literatures of the Roman Empire at the

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and lectures in Latin and Classical Studies.

Biography

König studied for her BA and MPhil at

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, and her PhD at St. John's College, Cambridge. She was the chair of the research network for ''Literary Interactions under

Nerva Nerva (; born Marcus Cocceius Nerva; 8 November 30 – 27 January 98) was a Roman emperor from 96 to 98. Nerva became emperor when aged almost 66, after a lifetime of imperial service under Nero and the succeeding rulers of the Flavian dynast ...

Trajan Trajan ( ; born Marcus Ulpius Traianus, 18 September 53) was a Roman emperor from AD 98 to 117, remembered as the second of the Five Good Emperors of the Nerva–Antonine dynasty. He was a philanthropic ruler and a successful soldier ...

Hadrian Hadrian ( ; ; 24 January 76 – 10 July 138) was Roman emperor from 117 to 138. Hadrian was born in Italica, close to modern Seville in Spain, an Italic peoples, Italic settlement in Hispania Baetica; his branch of the Aelia gens, Aelia '' ...

'', a

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funded project, 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

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in 2011, and in 2018 she was elected as co-chair 2019–2020. 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

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, 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

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panel as an expert on "

Agrippina the Younger Julia Agrippina (6 November AD 15 – 23 March AD 59), also referred to as Agrippina the Younger, was Roman empress from AD 49 to 54, the fourth wife and niece of emperor Claudius, and the mother of Nero. Agrippina was one of the most prominent ...

" (2016), "

Pliny the Younger Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (born Gaius Caecilius or Gaius Caecilius Cilo; 61 – ), better known in English as Pliny the Younger ( ), was a lawyer, author, and magistrate of Ancient Rome. Pliny's uncle, Pliny the Elder, helped raise and e ...

" (2013) and "

Vitruvius Vitruvius ( ; ; –70 BC – after ) was a Roman architect and engineer during the 1st century BC, known for his multi-volume work titled . As the only treatise on architecture to survive from antiquity, it has been regarded since the Renaissan ...

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" (2012).

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 * * * *

References

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