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

References