Cecelia Eaton Luschnig Explained

Cecelia Eaton Luschnig
Birth Name:	Cecelia Anne Eaton
Birth Date:	March 22, 1942
Birth Place:	New York City, New York, US
Death Place:	Moscow, Idaho, US
Other Names:	C. A. E. Luschnig
Occupation:	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. She had two brothers.^[1] Her father was a club owner in Syosset.^[2] She graduated from Hunter College High School and the City College of New York. She completed doctoral studies at the University of Cincinnati,^{[3] [4]} with a dissertation titled "The Logos-Ergon Conflict: A Study of Euripidean Tragedy" (1972).^[5]

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. She was active in the classics honor society Eta Sigma Phi,^[6] and advised the society's University of Idaho chapter from 1975 to 2003.

Publications

Books

• ETYMA: An Introduction to Vocabulary Building from Latin & Greek (1982, with Lance J. Luschnig)^[7]
• Etymidion: A Students' Workbook (1985)^[8]
• Tragic Aporia: A Study of Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis (1988)^[9]
• Time Holds the Mirror: A Study of Knowledge in Euripides’ Hippolytus (1988)^[10]
• The Gorgon’s Severed Head: Studies in Alcestis, Electra, and Phoenissae (1995)^[11]
• Euripides’ Alcestis: A Commentary (2003, with Hanna M. Roisman)^[12]
• The Worlds of Roman Women: A Latin Reader (2005, edited with A. R. Raia and J.L. Sebesta)^[13]
• Latin Letters; Reading Roman Correspondence (2006)^[14]
• An Introduction to Ancient Greek: A Literary Approach (2007)^[15]
• Granddaughter of the Sun: A Study of Euripides’ Medea (2007)^[16]
• Euripides’ Electra: A Commentary (2011, with Hanna M. Roisman)^[17]
• Electra, Phoenician Women, Bacchae, & Iphigenia at Aulis (2011, translated with Paul Woodruff)
• The Orestes Plays (2016)^[18]
• Three Other Theban Plays: Aeschylus' Seven against Thebes; Euripides' Suppliants; Euripides' Phoenician Women (2016)^[19]

Articles

• "Euripides' Trojan Women: All Is Vanity" (1971)^[20]
• "Euripides' Hecabe: The Time Is out of Joint" (1976)^[21]
• "Time and Memory in Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis" (1982)^[22]
• "The Value of Ignorance in the Hippolytus" (1983)^[23]
• "Interiors: Imaginary Spaces in Alcestis and Medea" (1992)^[24]

Personal life

Eaton married photographer Lance J. Luschnig in 1970. She died from cancer in 2022, at the age of 80, in Moscow, Idaho.^[25] She donated some of her papers to the University of Idaho Library.^[26]

Notes and References

1. News: February 9, 2010 . James C. Eaton . 12 . Frederick News Post . December 11, 2023 . NewspaperArchive.com.
2. News: 1955-03-18 . Jimmy Eaton's Lamp Post (advertisement) . 36 . Newsday (Suffolk Edition) . 2023-12-11 . Newspapers.com.
3. News: 1965-12-27 . AIA Meets in Providence . 36 . The Cincinnati Post . 2023-12-11 . Newspapers.com.
4. Web site: Roisman . Hanna . Obituary for Cecelia Anne Eaton Luschning . 2023-12-11 . Society for Classical Studies.
5. Book: Luschnig, C. A. E. . The Logos-ergon Conflict: A Study of Euripidean Tragedy . 1972 . University of Cincinnati . en.
6. News: 1976-10-22 . Vote Schemes Not New . 3 . Spokane Chronicle . 2023-12-11 . Newspapers.com.
7. Book: Luschnig . C. A. E. . Etyma: an introduction to vocabulary-building from Latin & Greek . Luschnig . L. J. . 1982 . University Press of America . 978-0-8191-2570-5 . Washington, D.C.
8. Book: Luschnig . Cecelia A. E. . Etymidion: a students workbook for vocabulary building from Latin and Greek . Luschnig . L. J. . 1985 . University Press of America . 978-0-8191-4838-4 . Lanham.
9. Book: Luschnig, Cecelia A. E. . Tragic Aporia: a study of Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis . 1988 . Aureal Publications . 978-0-949916-09-9 . Ramus monographs . Berwick.
10. Book: Luschnig, Cecelia A. E. . Time holds the mirror: a study of knowledge in Euripides' Hippolytus . 1988 . Brill . 978-90-04-08601-2 . Mnemosyne Supplementum collana . Leiden.
11. Book: Luschnig, Cecelia A. E. . The Gorgon's severed head: studies of Alcestis, Electra, and Phoenissae . 1995 . Brill . 978-90-04-10382-5 . Mnemosyne Supplementum collana . Leiden New York Köln.
12. Book: Euripides . Euripides' Alcestis . 2003 . University of Oklahoma Press . 978-0-8061-3574-8 . en.
13. Book: Raia . Ann . The worlds of Roman women: a latin reader . Luschnig . Cecelia A. E. . Sebesta . Judith Lynn . 2005 . Focus Publ., Pullins . 978-1-58510-130-6 . Focus classical commentary . Newburyport, Mass.
14. Book: Luschnig, Cecelia A. E. . Latin letters: reading Roman correspondence . 2006 . Focus . 978-1-58510-198-6 . Focus classical commentaries . Newburyport, MA.
15. Book: Luschnig . Cecelia A. Eaton . An introduction to ancient Greek: a literary approach . Mitchell . Deborah . 2007 . Hackett . 978-0-87220-889-6 . 2 . Indianapolis.
16. Book: Luschnig, Cecelia A. Eaton . Granddaughter of the sun: a study of Euripides' Medea . 2007 . Brill . 978-90-04-16059-0 . Mnemosyne . Leiden.
17. Book: Euripides . Euripides' Electra: a commentary . Roisman . Hanna Maslowski . Luschnig . Cecelia A. Eaton . 2011 . University of Oklahoma press . 978-0-8061-4119-0 . Oklahoma series in classical culture . Norman.
18. Book: Euripides . The Orestes Plays . Luschnig . Cecelia Eaton . 2013-01-01 . Hackett Publishing . 978-1-60384-932-6 . en.
19. Book: Three other Theban plays . 2016 . Hackett Publishing Company, Inc . 978-1-62466-471-7 . Indianapolis Cambridge . Luschnig . Cecelia A. E..
20. Luschnig . C. A. E. . 1971 . Euripides' "Trojan Women:" All Is Vanity . The Classical World . 65 . 1 . 8–12 . 10.2307/4347531 . 4347531 . 0009-8418.
21. Luschnig . C. A. E. . 1976 . Euripides' "Hecabe": The Time Is out of Joint . The Classical Journal . 71 . 3 . 227–234 . 3296183 . 0009-8353.
22. Luschnig . C. A. E. . January 1982 . Time and Memory in Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis . Ramus . en . 11 . 2 . 99–104 . 10.1017/S0048671X00003775 . 31 January 2024 . 0048-671X.
23. Luschnig . C. A. E. . Summer 1983 . The Value of Ignorance in the Hippolytus" . The American Journal of Philology . 104 . 2 . 115–123 . 10.2307/294286 . 294286 . Internet Archive.
24. Luschnig . C. A. E. . 1992 . Interiors: Imaginary Spaces in "Alcestis" and Medea . Mnemosyne . 45 . 1 . 19–44 . 10.1163/1568525X-90000003 . 4432107 . 0026-7074.
25. Web site: 2022-07-16 . Cecelia Eaton Luschnig . 2023-12-11 . Moscow-Pullman Daily News . en.
26. Web site: Cecelia Luschnig papers . Archives West.