American college professor
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. Her father was a club owner in Syosset. She graduated from Hunter College High School and the City College of New York. She completed doctoral studies at the University of Cincinnati, with a dissertation titled "The Logos-Ergon Conflict: A Study of Euripidean Tragedy" (1972).
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, and advised the society's University of Idaho chapter from 1975 to 2003.
Personal life.
Eaton married photographer Lance J. Luschnig in 1970. She died from cancer in 2022, at the age of 80, in Moscow, Idaho. She donated some of her papers to the University of Idaho Library.
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