Patrik Klingborg
Associate senior lecturer/Assistant Professor (leave of absence) at Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia; Antikens kultur och samhällsliv
- E-mail:
- patrik.klingborg@antiken.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Engelska parken, Thunbergsvägen 3H
- Postal address:
- Box 626
751 26 UPPSALA - Leave of absence:
- 2022-02-01 - 2026-01-31
Associate senior lecturer/Assistant Professor at Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia; Antikens kultur och samhällsliv
- E-mail:
- patrik.klingborg@antiken.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Engelska parken, Thunbergsvägen 3H
- Postal address:
- Box 626
751 26 UPPSALA
- ORCID:
- 0000-0002-2146-3659
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Keywords
- ancient greece
- aqueducts
- classics
- greek cisterns
- water supply
Biography
Patrik Klingborg is an Associate Senior Lecturer at the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University, Sweden, primarily studying water usage in the ancient Greek world. Within the framework of this, he has focused on non-monumental water sources such as cisterns and wells, as well as how water was used within ancient Greek religion. He is also part of the board of the Frontinus-Gesellschaft and participates in fieldwork by the Swedish Institute at Athens.
Research
Ancient water supply
- The development of the water supply in ancient Greece
- Cisterns in ancient Greece
- Water usage in Greek religion
- Roman aqueducts
Other fields
- The history and archeology of northern Greece
- Ancient urbanism
Publications
Selection of publications
- Introduction (2023)
- Going against the flow (2023)
- Wells and cisterns in Greek literature (2023)
- The cisterns of the Bisti promontory at Hermione. With a preliminary description of the Roman aqueduct (2021)
- Review of N. Chiarenza, A. Haug & U. Müller, eds., The power of urban water. Studies in premodern urbanism, Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter 2020. 272 pp. ISBN 978-3-11-067664-8. (2021)
- Water at ancient Greek sanctuaries: medium of divine presence or commodity for mortal visitors? (2019)
- Review of: K. Wellbrock, Die innerstädtische Wasserbewirtschaftung im hellenistisch-römischen Pergamon (2018)
- Greek Cisterns (2017)
- Vatten, cisterner och risk i det antika Grekland (2015)
- Cisternarsle! Torr humor och grekiska cisterner (2013)
- Sulla undviker att bli huggen i ryggen (2013)
- Utgrävningar i en antik stoa (2012)
- Ett cisternsystem på Kalaureia och några tankar kring en antik helgedoms vattenförsörjning (2011)
- Appendix 1: Two possible water channels in The New Swedish Cyprus Expedition 2010 Excavations at Dromolaxia Vizatzia/Hala Sultan Tekke (2010)
Recent publications
- Introduction (2023)
- Going against the flow (2023)
- Wells and cisterns in Greek literature (2023)
- En vinter utan regn (2023)
- Social Stratification and Water Sharing on Late-Hellenistic Delos (2023)
All publications
Articles
- En vinter utan regn (2023)
- Saskia Kerschbaum, Fernwasserleitungen im kaiserzeitlichen Kleinasien. Ein Innovationsprozess und sein urbanistischer und soziokultureller Kontext, Wiesbaden (Harrassowitz Verlag) 2021 (2023)
- Ritual Usage of Water in Greek Sanctuaries (2023)
- The cisterns of the Bisti promontory at Hermione. With a preliminary description of the Roman aqueduct (2021)
- Review of N. Chiarenza, A. Haug & U. Müller, eds., The power of urban water. Studies in premodern urbanism, Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter 2020. 272 pp. ISBN 978-3-11-067664-8. (2021)
- Water at ancient Greek sanctuaries: medium of divine presence or commodity for mortal visitors? (2019)
- Review of: K. Wellbrock, Die innerstädtische Wasserbewirtschaftung im hellenistisch-römischen Pergamon (2018)
- Vatten, cisterner och risk i det antika Grekland (2015)
- Sulla undviker att bli huggen i ryggen (2013)
- Utgrävningar i en antik stoa (2012)
- Ett cisternsystem på Kalaureia och några tankar kring en antik helgedoms vattenförsörjning (2011)
- Appendix 1: Two possible water channels in The New Swedish Cyprus Expedition 2010 Excavations at Dromolaxia Vizatzia/Hala Sultan Tekke (2010)
Books
- Going against the flow (2023)
- Water in Ancient Mediterranean Households (2023)
- Greek Cisterns (2017)
Chapters
