Donald Kagan | |
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| Born | May 1, 1932 |
| Died | August 6, 2021 (aged 89) Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Spouse |
Myrna Dabrusky
(m. 1954; died 2017) |
| Children | |
| Awards | National Humanities Medal (2002) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Brooklyn College (BA) Brown University (MA) Ohio State University (PhD) |
| Thesis | Politics and policy in Corinth (1958) |
| Doctoral advisor | William F. McDonald |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Classics |
| Institutions | Cornell University Yale University |
| Main interests | Peloponnesian War |
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Donald Kagan (/ˈkeɪɡən/; May 1, 1932 – August 6, 2021) was a Lithuanian-born American historian and classicist at Yale University specializing in ancient Greece. He formerly taught in the Department of History at Cornell University. Kagan was considered among the foremost American scholars of Greek history and is notable for his four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War.