Kagan, Donald (Personal Name)

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His Decline and fall of the Roman Empire ... c1962.

His The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition, c1981: t.p. (Donald Kagan) CIP data sheet (b. 1932)

Wikipedia, 23 June 2018 (Donald Kagan (born May 1, 1932); is an American historian and classicist at Yale University specializing in ancient Greece; formerly taught in the Department of History at Cornell University; considered among the foremost American scholars of Greek history; born in Kuršenai, Lithuania and grew up in Brooklyn, New York; graduated from Brooklyn College in 1954, received an M.A. from Brown University in 1955 and a Ph.D. from Ohio State University in 1958; notable for his four volume history of the Peloponnesian War; was the Sterling Professor of Classics and History at Yale University until his retirement in 2013)

New York times, 16 Aug. 2021: in an obituary on page D8 (Donald Kagan, born May 1, 1932 in Kursenai, Lithuania, died Aug. 6 in Washington, D.C., aged 89; a Yale historian whose impassioned teaching and writing about the ancient Greeks inspired generations of scholars as well as Washington startegists, including many of the officials who crafted American foreign policy under Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush; Professor Kagan's passion for ancient Greece informed another of his great loves: sports. He saw baseball as a Homeric allegory)