Ljiljana Crepajac Explained

Ljiljana Crepajac
Native Name:	Љиљана Црепајац
Death Place:	Belgrade, Serbia

Ljiljana Crepajac (Serbian Cyrillic: Љиљана Црепајац) (1931-2018)^[1] was a Serbian classical scholar,^[2] philologist, and a full-time professor at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy on the subject Historical grammar of Old Greek; she was the head of the Department of Classical Sciences (since 1994), and she has been a full professor since 1987.

Crepajac graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, where she received a PhD; she obtained her MA degree at the University of Copenhagen. She was fluent in English, German, Russian, Italian and French, as well as in Latin and Old Greek.

Selected works

• Doctoral thesis: On the Prefix a in Classical Languages (1973),
• A textbook: Stoiheia Hellenika - the Elements of Greek Glotollogy (1967);
• Papers from Hellenic Glotology;
• Primary Synesthesis in Indoeuropean,
• Indoeuropaische Gutturale im Greichischen und mykenische Zeugnisse;
• Zur Etymologie von griech sidaros und /s/ mudros;
• Pelastian Proto-Slavonic Relations According to the Researches of Milan Budimir

Translations

From Ancient Greek:

• Aristotle's Politics;
• Sophocles' Oedipus Rex;
• Aristophanes' Ecclesiazusae;

From Latin:

• Tacitus' Annals

Notes and References

1. In memoriam: проф. др Љиљана Црепајац . Lucida Intervalla, A Journal of Classical Studies . 47 . 2018 . Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade.
2. News: http://www.politika.rs/rubrike/Kultura/t15942.sr.html. sr:Култура : Превод као истраживање : ПОЛИТИКА. Стојаковић. Биљана. 31 December 2006. Политика. Serbian. 9 April 2011.