Alice Konig

Alice König is a Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of St Andrews. She works on ancient technical literature and the history of science, and the relationship between politics, society and literature in the early principate. These two interests come together in a monograph she is preparing on the author and statesman, Sextus Julius Frontinus, and in a series of articles she has published on Vitruvius, Frontinus, Pliny the Younger and Tacitus. Alice established the 'Literary...See more

Alice König is a Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of St Andrews. She works on ancient technical literature and the history of science, and the relationship between politics, society and literature in the early principate. These two interests come together in a monograph she is preparing on the author and statesman, Sextus Julius Frontinus, and in a series of articles she has published on Vitruvius, Frontinus, Pliny the Younger and Tacitus. Alice established the 'Literary Interactions' research project in 2011, and is co-editor also of the project's first volume (on literary interactions under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian), in which she has a chapter on Frontinus and Martial. She also co-directs a collaborative research project on 'Visualising War', looking at interplay between battle narratives in different genres and media from antiquity to the present day. See less