Aleksandar Loma, born 1955 in Valjevo, Serbia, Full Professor at the Department of Classics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, teaching fields Greek, History of Religions; Full Member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, leader for the project of the Etymological Dictionary of Serbian at the Serbian Language Institute of SASA. Research fields: Indo‑European Comparative Linguistics, with the stress on Greek, Slavic, Indo‑Iranian and the ancient languages of the Balkans; Comparative History of Religions and Mythology; Toponymy and Historical Geography; for topics and themes see the Publication list with an overview of fields and topics and some contents available online.