Svetlana Slapšak (born 18 January 1948 in

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) is a Slovenian

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classical philologist Classics, also classical studies or Ancient Greek and Roman studies, is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, ''classics'' traditionally refers to the study of Ancient Greek and Roman literature and their original languages, ...

, writer, and historian. She has authored the books ''Svi Grci nazad! : eseji o helenizmu u novijoj srpskoj književnost'' (1985), ''Ogledi o bezbrižnosti : srpski intelektualci, nacionalizam i jugoslovenski rat'' (1994), ''Leon in Leonina ali Zgodba o vztrajnosti'' (1997), ''Ženske ikone antičkog sveta'' (2006), ''Zelje in spolnost : iz zgodovinske antropologije hrane : študija o kultni, ritualni in kulturni vlogi zelja'' (2013), and ''Antička miturgija : žene'' (2013). She was nominated for the

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in 2005. In 2017, Slapšak has signed the

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of the

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and

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.Signatories of the Declaration on the Common Language
official website, retrieved on 2022-08-13.

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