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Donald Kagan [1932-0] American
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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.


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History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.
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Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born.
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Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction.
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You have to liberate yourself first from the prejudices of the world in which you live.
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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.
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I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?
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We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that's so striking is the whole area of politics.
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All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire.
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