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Roman Literature under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian
  • Roman Literature under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian
  • Literary Interactions, AD 96–138
  • Edited by Alice König, Christopher Whitton
  • Published online: 26 February 2018
  • Print publication: 15 March 2018
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    This volume is the first holistic investigation of Roman literature and literary culture under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian (AD 96–138). With case studies from Frontinus, Juvenal, Martial, Pliny the Younger, Plutarch, Quintilian, Suetonius and Tacitus among others, the eighteen chapters offer not just innovative readings of literary (and some 'less literary') texts, but a collaborative enquiry into the networks and culture in which they are embedded. The book brings together established and novel methodologies to explore the connections, conversations and silences between these texts and their authors, both on and off the page. The scholarly dialogues that result not only shed fresh light on the dynamics of literary production and consumption in the 'High Roman Empire', but offer new provocations to students of intertextuality and interdiscursivity across classical literature. How can and should we read textual interactions in their social, literary and cultural contexts?
  • Transitioning between School- and University-Level Latin Learning: A Scottish Perspective
  • Emma Buckley, Alice König, Ana Kotarcic
  • Journal: Journal of Classics Teaching / Volume 18 / Issue 35 / Spring 2017
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 May 2017, pp. 54-64
  • Print publication: Spring 2017
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    Students are arriving to study Latin at university with an increasingly diverse range of qualifications (including no Latin at all). This is something to celebrate. University Classics departments want students from different educational backgrounds; and we want a wide range of qualification authorities to continue to offer students the chance to start learning Latin at school. This diversity is being exacerbated, however, by an increasingly stark differential in the content and rigour of these various qualifications; and that presents challenges for universities aiming to integrate students quickly and acclimatise them to university-style learning. Classes in all subjects have more and less knowledgeable students learning side-by-side; but the dynamics of a Latin language class mean that gaps in knowledge and differences in experience become publicly visible very quickly. This is thus a social problem as much as it is an academic one, and it is particularly acute during that important period of transition, the first year of university study. This trend is not exclusive to the teaching of Latin but has also been a recurring theme of discussion within Modern Languages too, particularly in Scottish universities where the percentage of non-A Level students is higher than is generally the case south of the border.

  • FRONTINUS' CAMEO ROLE IN TACITUS' AGRICOLA
  • Alice König
  • Journal: The Classical Quarterly / Volume 63 / Issue 1 / May 2013
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 April 2013, pp. 361-376
  • Print publication: May 2013
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    Frontinus appears only once in Tacitus' Agricola, at a moment in the text where Tacitus is filling in some background, sketching a rough history of the Roman occupation of Britain up to the time when Agricola took over as governor of the province. His appearance is brief, and the momentum of the whole section makes it tempting to see him as a mere footnote in the tale of Agricola's life and career. I will argue, however, that Frontinus' role in the text is more significant than that. Indeed, it is my contention that he is closely bound up with – and helps Tacitus and his readers to explore – one of the text's most pressing concerns: namely senatorial conduct, status and identity, in Domitianic and post-Domitianic Rome.

  • 8 - Knowledge and power in Frontinus' On aqueducts
    • By Alice König, Lecturer in Latin, University of St Andrews
  • Edited by Jason König, University of St Andrews, Scotland, Tim Whitmarsh, University of Exeter
  • Book: Ordering Knowledge in the Roman Empire
  • Published online: 28 August 2009
  • Print publication: 15 November 2007, pp 177-205
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    INTRODUCTION

    During his lifetime, Sextus Julius Frontinus was ‘one of the most important figures of the Flavio-Trajanic era’. Little is known for certain about his early career, but by the time of his death in 103/104 ce he had not only served as Governor of Britain, Proconsul of Asia, Curator aquarum (Guardian of the aqueducts) and Augur, but had also been made consul three times, twice with Trajan himself as his colleague. Triple consulships were only rarely bestowed on men outside the imperial family in this period, so scholars have suggested that these singular distinctions may be proof that Frontinus played a significant role in Trajan's succession as emperor, and perhaps even in Nerva's elevation to the ‘post’. indeed, it is tempting to wonder if Frontinus was himself ever a candidate for Nerva's job. In spite of having been ‘one of the most successful and influential senators of the latter part of the first century’, however, Frontinus is best remembered today as the author of a number of so-called ‘technical’ treatises and consequently languishes, largely forgotten, at the margins of classical scholarship.

    Most of those who have had any contact with his surviving texts have argued, or assumed, that they are straightforward, practical manuals, which may be of interest to specialist historians but which have little to recommend themselves to a wider readership. At first sight, they do perhaps give that impression.