Cecelia Eaton Luschnig
Born
Cecelia Anne Eaton

March 22, 1942
New York City, New York, US
DiedJune 19, 2022(2022-06-19) (aged 80)
Moscow, Idaho, US
Other namesC. A. E. Luschnig
Occupation(s)College professor, classics scholar, writer

Cecelia Anne Eaton Luschnig (March 22, 1942 – June 19, 2022) was an American classics scholar, translator, and writer. She was a professor at the University of Idaho.

Early life and education

Cecelia Anne Eaton was born in New York City, the daughter of James C. "Jimmy" Eaton and Olive Findlay Eaton.[1] She had two brothers.[2] Her father was a club owner in Syosset.[3] She graduated from Hunter College High School and the City College of New York. She completed doctoral studies at the University of Cincinnati,[4][5] with a dissertation titled "The Logos-Ergon Conflict: A Study of Euripidean Tragedy" (1972).[6]

Career

Luschnig was a classics professor at the University of Idaho. She was a noted expert on Euripides. She received the American Philological Association Award for Excellence in Teaching. She was president of the Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest, and edited the association's newsletter.[7] She was active in the classics honor society Eta Sigma Phi,[8] and advised the society's University of Idaho chapter from 1975 to 2003.[7]

Publications

Books

  • ETYMA: An Introduction to Vocabulary Building from Latin & Greek (1982, with Lance J. Luschnig)[9]
  • Etymidion: A Students' Workbook (1985)[10]
  • Tragic Aporia: A Study of Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis (1988)[11]
  • Time Holds the Mirror: A Study of Knowledge in Euripides’ Hippolytus (1988)[12]
  • The Gorgon’s Severed Head: Studies in Alcestis, Electra, and Phoenissae (1995)[13]
  • Euripides’ Alcestis: A Commentary (2003, with Hanna M. Roisman)[14]
  • The Worlds of Roman Women: A Latin Reader (2005, edited with A. R. Raia and J.L. Sebesta)[15]
  • Latin Letters; Reading Roman Correspondence (2006)[16]
  • An Introduction to Ancient Greek: A Literary Approach (2007)[17]
  • Granddaughter of the Sun: A Study of Euripides’ Medea (2007)[18]
  • Euripides’ Electra: A Commentary (2011, with Hanna M. Roisman)[19]
  • Electra, Phoenician Women, Bacchae, & Iphigenia at Aulis (2011, translated with Paul Woodruff)
  • The Orestes Plays (2016)[20]
  • Three Other Theban Plays: Aeschylus' Seven against Thebes; Euripides' Suppliants; Euripides' Phoenician Women (2016)[21]

Articles

  • "Euripides' Trojan Women: All Is Vanity" (1971)[22]
  • "Euripides' Hecabe: The Time Is out of Joint" (1976)[23]
  • "Time and Memory in Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis" (1982)[24]
  • "The Value of Ignorance in the Hippolytus" (1983)[25]
  • "Interiors: Imaginary Spaces in Alcestis and Medea" (1992)[26]

Personal life

Eaton married photographer Lance J. Luschnig in 1970. She died from cancer in 2022, at the age of 80, in Moscow, Idaho.[1] She donated some of her papers to the University of Idaho Library.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 "Cecelia Eaton Luschnig". Moscow-Pullman Daily News. 2022-07-16. Retrieved 2023-12-11.
  2. ↑ "James C. Eaton". Frederick News Post. February 9, 2010. p. 12. Retrieved December 11, 2023 – via NewspaperArchive.com.
  3. ↑ "Jimmy Eaton's Lamp Post (advertisement)". Newsday (Suffolk Edition). 1955-03-18. p. 36. Retrieved 2023-12-11 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ↑ "AIA Meets in Providence". The Cincinnati Post. 1965-12-27. p. 36. Retrieved 2023-12-11 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ Roisman, Hanna. "Obituary for Cecelia Anne Eaton Luschning". Society for Classical Studies. Retrieved 2023-12-11.
  6. ↑ Luschnig, C. A. E. (1972). The Logos-ergon Conflict: A Study of Euripidean Tragedy. University of Cincinnati.
  7. 1 2 3 "Cecelia Luschnig papers". Archives West.
  8. ↑ "Vote Schemes Not New". Spokane Chronicle. 1976-10-22. p. 3. Retrieved 2023-12-11 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ↑ Luschnig, C. A. E.; Luschnig, L. J. (1982). Etyma: an introduction to vocabulary-building from Latin & Greek. Washington, D.C: University Press of America. ISBN 978-0-8191-2570-5.
  10. ↑ Luschnig, Cecelia A. E.; Luschnig, L. J. (1985). Etymidion: a students workbook for vocabulary building from Latin and Greek. Lanham: University Press of America. ISBN 978-0-8191-4838-4.
  11. ↑ Luschnig, Cecelia A. E. (1988). Tragic Aporia: a study of Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis. Ramus monographs. Berwick: Aureal Publications. ISBN 978-0-949916-09-9.
  12. ↑ Luschnig, Cecelia A. E. (1988). Time holds the mirror: a study of knowledge in Euripides' Hippolytus. Mnemosyne Supplementum collana. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-08601-2.
  13. ↑ Luschnig, Cecelia A. E. (1995). The Gorgon's severed head: studies of Alcestis, Electra, and Phoenissae. Mnemosyne Supplementum collana. Leiden New York Köln: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-10382-5.
  14. ↑ Euripides (2003). Euripides' Alcestis. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 978-0-8061-3574-8.
  15. ↑ Raia, Ann; Luschnig, Cecelia A. E.; Sebesta, Judith Lynn (2005). The worlds of Roman women: a latin reader. Focus classical commentary. Newburyport, Mass: Focus Publ., Pullins. ISBN 978-1-58510-130-6.
  16. ↑ Luschnig, Cecelia A. E. (2006). Latin letters: reading Roman correspondence. Focus classical commentaries. Newburyport, MA: Focus. ISBN 978-1-58510-198-6.
  17. ↑ Luschnig, Cecelia A. Eaton; Mitchell, Deborah (2007). An introduction to ancient Greek: a literary approach (2 ed.). Indianapolis: Hackett. ISBN 978-0-87220-889-6.
  18. ↑ Luschnig, Cecelia A. Eaton (2007). Granddaughter of the sun: a study of Euripides' Medea. Mnemosyne. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-16059-0.
  19. ↑ Euripides; Roisman, Hanna Maslowski; Luschnig, Cecelia A. Eaton (2011). Euripides' Electra: a commentary. Oklahoma series in classical culture. Norman: University of Oklahoma press. ISBN 978-0-8061-4119-0.
  20. ↑ Euripides; Luschnig, Cecelia Eaton (2013-01-01). The Orestes Plays. Hackett Publishing. ISBN 978-1-60384-932-6.
  21. ↑ Three other Theban plays. Translated by Luschnig, Cecelia A. E. Indianapolis Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2016. ISBN 978-1-62466-471-7.
  22. ↑ Luschnig, C. A. E. (1971). "Euripides' "Trojan Women:" All Is Vanity". The Classical World. 65 (1): 8–12. doi:10.2307/4347531. ISSN 0009-8418. JSTOR 4347531.
  23. ↑ Luschnig, C. A. E. (1976). "Euripides' "Hecabe": The Time Is out of Joint". The Classical Journal. 71 (3): 227–234. ISSN 0009-8353. JSTOR 3296183.
  24. ↑ Luschnig, C. A. E. (January 1982). "Time and Memory in Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis". Ramus. 11 (2): 99–104. doi:10.1017/S0048671X00003775 (inactive 2023-12-26). ISSN 0048-671X.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of December 2023 (link)
  25. ↑ Luschnig, C. A. E. (Summer 1983). "The Value of Ignorance in the Hippolytus"". The American Journal of Philology. 104 (2): 115–123 – via Internet Archive.
  26. ↑ Luschnig, C. A. E. (1992). "Interiors: Imaginary Spaces in "Alcestis" and Medea". Mnemosyne. 45 (1): 19–44. ISSN 0026-7074. JSTOR 4432107.
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