Donald Kagan

Definition: Donald Kagan is Sterling Professor of Classics and History at Yale University. He has been a controversial figure because of his (conservative) social and political opinions. His Yale website lists the following publications:

1. The Great Dialogue: A History of Greek Political Thought from Homer to Polybius (1965 and 1986)
2. The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War (1969)
3. The Archidamian War (1974)
4. The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition (1981)
5. The Fall of the Athenian Empire (1987)
6. Pericles and the Birth of the Athenian Empire (1990)
7. On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace (1995)
8. While America Sleeps (2000) with Frederick W. Kagan; The Western Heritage (2000) with Steven Ozment and Frank M. Turner
9. The Heritage of World Civilizations (2000) with Albert M. Craig, William A. Graham, Ozment and Turner
10. The Peloponnesian War (2003)

Kagan has won many awards, including the National Humanities Medal for 2002.

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