Donald Kagan (/ˈkeɪɡən/; born May 1, 1932) 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.
Books in order of publication:
The Great Dialogue: A History of Greek Political Thought from Homer to Polybius – 1965
The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War – 1969
The Archidamian War – 1974
The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition – 1981
The Fall of the Athenian Empire – 1987
Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy – 1991
On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace – 1995
While America Sleeps – 2000
The Heritage of World Civilizations – 2000
The Western Heritage – 2003
The Peloponnesian War – 2003
Thucydides: The Reinvention of History – 2009
Men of Bronze: Hoplite Warfare in Ancient Greece – 2013
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