Eugene Numa Lane (August 13, 1936 in Washington, DC – January 1, 2007, Columbia, MO) was an American classical philologist and archaeologist.
Life
The son of linguist
George Sherman Lane, he attended
Episcopal High School in
Alexandria, Virginia and studied from 1954 to 1958 at
Princeton University (Salutatorian),
then at
Yale (MA 1960, Ph.D. 1962). Winning a
Fulbright
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Scholarship, he spent a year studying at the
American School of Classical Studies
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in
Athens, Greece
before taking a faculty position at the
University of Virginia from 1962 to 1966.
He then went on to teach at the
University of Missouri from 1966 to 2000.
In the course of his career at the University of Missouri, he was chairman of the Classics Department and served as the Director of Graduate Studies. He taught courses in ancient and modern Greek, along with Latin and others covering classical civilizations. In 1992 he taught once again at the American School of Classical Studies where he was the director of the institution's first summer session.
In 2000 he became professor emeritus at the University of Missouri.
He died of complications of
Parkinson's disease on New Year's Day 2007.
Published works
Eugene Lane's main interest was the study of the ancient religions, especially the influence of eastern cults in the Roman Empire. He major works were on the cults of the
Men and
Sabazios
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, both deities with
Anatolian origins.
* Corpus Monumentorum Religionis Dei Menis (= Etudes préliminaires aux religions orientales dans l'Empire romain vol. 19). Vol. I-IV, Brill, Leiden 1985–1989.
* Corpuscultus Iovis Sabazii (= Etudes préliminaires aux religions orientales dans l'Empire romain, vol. 100). Bd. II-III, Brill, Leiden 1985–1989, ; ; .
* Paganism and Christianity. A source book. Fortress Press, Minneapolis 1992, .
* Cybele, Attis, and Related Cults: Essays in Memory of M.J.Vermaseren (Leiden, Brill, 1996).
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American philologists
1936 births
2007 deaths
Princeton University alumni
Harvard University alumni
20th-century philologists