Donald Kagan Quotes


From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things, but history had a special appeal for me.


Citations

Kagan, Donald. Interview by Harry Kreisler. Conversations with History, Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 2003.

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Donald Kagan
Donald Kagan
  • Born: May 1, 1932
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Historian

Donald Kagan is an American historian and classicist at Yale University specializing in ancient Greece, notable for his four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War. He formerly taught in the Department of History at Cornell University. At present, Kagan is considered among the foremost American scholars of Greek history.