Timo Zarakovitis

I am Timo Zarakovitis, a new PhD at KU Leuven in the MECANO project. I have started interdisciplinary research on the canonicity of Plato’s and Aristotle’s philosophy by analysing quotation with DH approaches. It is the aim of this research to build a database of these authors being quoted in the Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca and to speak about the history of philosophy and canonization on the basis of this corpus, which spans from the second century CE until the Byzantine period.

Research Areas: Neoplatonism; Aristotle; History of Philosophy; Intellectual History; Digital Humanities and Text Reuse.

Commentary, Canon, and Code: An Intern’s View on Ancient Philosophy

As summer came to an end, so did the first of the MECANO network’s so-called ‘non-academic’ secondments. For three months we (PhD candidates, Timo Zarakovitis and Kendall Bitner) left our usual posts at KU Leuven and Radboud University and took up shop at the Corpus Christianorum Bibliotheek & Kenniscentrum of Brepols Publishers, situated in the historic beguinage in Turnhout, Belgium.