Miloš Đurić

Miloš N. Đurić , was a Serbian classical philologist, hellenist, classical translator, philosopher, university professor and a full member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Đurić's textbooks and translations of classic literary works such as the Iliad, the Odyssey and Poetics are still in use. According to Dr. Ksenija Maricki Gađanski, Đurić's numerous contributions to Serbian culture puts him on a scale of earlier Serbian enlighteners such as Saint Sava and Dositej Obradović.

Biography Born the eldest son of a family of eight, Đurić's father, Nikola, was a teacher and writer which would influence his future career. He began to write and publish poetry and literary criticism early in life. In 1918, Đurić was living in Osijek, where he tried to publish a work on Serbian epic poetry titled Smrt majke Jugovića. Austro-Hungarian state censors based in Osijek banned the paper on the grounds that it "threatens the national interests".

The puppet government of Serbia forced him into early retirement and sent him to the Banjica concentration camp. His only son Rastko died on the front in Slavonia in 1945. Between 1952 and 1957 Đurić served as the president of the Serbian Literary Guild, chief editor of several academic journals and a contributor to 96 journals and magazines. The Belgrade Psychoanalytical Society made him a full member, and he translated some of the most influential works of psychoanalytical literature into Serbian.

A complete bibliography of Đurić's works consists of around 400 titles containing more than 10,000 pages. on the grounds that more than half of his students were part of the Yugoslav Partisans. This statement became a symbol of personal integrity in Serbian and Yugoslav society.

Awards and legacy Đurić was awarded the city of Belgrade's October Award, the Seventh July Award, the Order of Saint Sava and the Yugoslav Order of Labour. A street in Karaburma is named after him. The Association of Literary Translators of Serbia has awarded the Miloš N. Đurić Award annually since 1969. It is considered the most important Serbian prize for translation. The title of one of Milovan Vitezović's poetry collections—Na času kod profesora Miloša N. Đurića—honours him.

His personal items and works are kept by the Belgrade University Library.

Works Source: Antologija stare helenske lirike, 1962 Istorijski izvori istorija i filosofija, 1997 Selected works, I-VI, 1997

Translator and editor Iliad, Homer Odyssey, Homer Poetics, Aristotle The Suppliant, Aeschylus The Persians, Aeschylus Seven Against Thebes, Aeschylus Prometheus Bound, Aeschylus Oresteia, Aeschylus Antigon, Sophocles Oedipus Rex, Sophocles Medea, Euripides Hippolytu, Euripides Iphigenia in Tauris, Euripides Daphnis and Chloe, Longus Symposium, Plato Ion, Plato Apology, Plato Phaedrus, Plato Phaedo, Plato Crito, Plato Criticism of Parallel Lives, Plutarch Enchiridion of Epictetus, Arrian De Vita Beata, Seneca the Younger Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, Seneca the Younger Grčke tragedije, a compilation, 1982 Various shorter works by Alfred Adler, Carl Jung, Maxim Gorky, Will Durant, Nikolai Berdyaev and Rabindranath Tagore Srpske narodne pesme, I-XIV, editor Srpske narodne pripovetke, I-II, editor Antologija stare helenske lirike, 1962, editor