Donald Kagan
American historian and classicist
Donald Kagan was an American historian and classicist at Yale University who specialized in ancient Greece. He wrote a four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War.
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American Born 1932 in Kuršėnai, Lithuania Died 2021
About Donald Kagan
Donald Kagan was born in Kuršėnai, Lithuania, on 1 May 1932 and died on 6 August 2021. He was an American historian and classicist who taught at Yale University, and earlier in the history department at Cornell University. He began publishing in the 1960s, and one of his books is The Fall of the Athenian Empire. He received the National Humanities Medal in 2002. His four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War is the work he is especially noted for, and The Peloponnesian War is his title in our catalog.