Eugene Numa Lane (August 13, 1936 in Washington, DC – January 1, 2007, Columbia, MO) was an American classical philologist and archaeologist.
[1] 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),[2] then at Yale (MA 1960, Ph.D. 1962).
[4] 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.
[2] Eugene Lane's main interest was the study of the ancient religions, especially the influence of eastern cults in the Roman Empire.