Ljiljana Crepajac (Serbian Cyrillic: Љиљана Црепајац) (born 1931, died 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 Reletions According to the Researches of Milan Budimir
Translations
From Ancient Greek:
- Aristotle's Politics;
- Sophocles' Oedipus Rex;
- Aristophanes' Ecclesiazusae;
From Latin:
References
- ^ "In memoriam: проф. др Љиљана Црепајац", Lucida Intervalla, A Journal of Classical Studies, Vol. 47, 2018, Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade.
- ^ Стојаковић, Биљана (31 December 2006). Култура : Превод као истраживање : ПОЛИТИКА. Политика (in Serbian). Retrieved 9 April 2011.