Patrik Granholm
Ph.D. Student in Classical Philology
Contact Info
Visiting AddressRoom 9-3064
Department of Linguistics and Philology, Thunbergsvägen 3H, House 9 (map)
English Park Campus. Centre for the Humanities (map)
Phone: +46 18 471 14 23
Fax: +46 18 471 10 94
E-mail: Patrik.Granholm@lingfil.uu.se
Postal Address
Department of Linguistics and Philology
Box 635
SE-751 26 Uppsala
Sweden
Short CV
- Born 1974 in Terjärv in the district of Kronoby, Finland.
- Educated at Kronoby Gymnasium 1990-1993.
- Studies in Physics, Mathematics, Philosophy, Latin and Greek at the University of Helsinki 1994-1996.
- Studies in Greek, Latin and Philosophy at Uppsala University 1996-2000.
- Master of Arts in 2000.
- Webmaster and Systems Administrator at the Department of Classical Philology 2000-.
- Studies in Greek at Uppsala University 2001-2002.
- Ph.D. Student at the Department of Classical Philology 2003-.
- Part-time Research Assistant in the CLED project 2005.
- Licentiate of Philosophy in 2006.
- Master Programme in Library and Information Science 2009-.
Thesis
Alciphron: Letters of the Courtesans. Edited with introduction, translation and commentary.
My Ph.D. thesis deals with a collection of 20 fictional letters purportedly written by famous hetaerae, or courtesans, in Athens in the 4th century B.C. The letters are ascribed to the Greek author Alciphron who probably lived in the late 2nd or early 3rd century A.D. The letters of the courtesans are part of a larger collection containing letters of fishermen, farmers and parasites, which are stock characters in Greek new comedy. The subject matter of the letters shows that they are influenced by Greek new comedy, especially Menander, and the dialogues of Lucian.
The core of the thesis consists of a new critical edition based on a complete collation of the twelve manuscripts from the 15th and 16th centuries in which the letters are preserved. The text is supplemented with a translation. The introduction gives an account of the manuscript tradition and an overview of the letters and the genre. The commentary deals with textual criticism and matters of language, history and literature.