Donald Kagan

Donald Kagan
Born	(1932-05-01)May 1, 1932 Kuršėnai, Lithuania
Died	August 6, 2021(2021-08-06) (aged 89) Washington, D.C., U.S.
Spouse	Myrna Dabrusky ​ ​ (m. 1954; died 2017)​
Children	Robert Frederick
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.