Ljiljana Crepajac

Ljiljana Crepajac (Serbian Cyrillic: Љиљана Црепајац) (1931–2018) was a Serbian classical scholar, philologist, and a full professor at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy where she taught historical grammar of Old Greek; she was the head of the Department of Classics (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