
Donald Kagan (born May 1, 1932) is an American historian at Yale specializing in ancient Greece, notable for his four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War. He was Dean of Yale College from 1989–1992. He formerly taught in the Department of History at Cornell University. In a review in The New Yorker, critic George Steiner said of Kagan's seminal four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War: "The temptation to acclaim Kagan's four volumes as the foremost work of history produced in North America in this century is vivid.
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01 - Introduction
02 - The Dark Ages
03 - The Dark Ages (cont.)
04 - The Rise of the Polis
05 - The Rise of the Polis (cont.)
08 - Sparta
06 - The Greek "Renaissance" - Colonization and Tyranny
09 - Sparta (cont.)
07 - The Greek "Renaissance" - Colonization and Tyranny (cont.)
10 - The Rise of Athens
12 - The Persian Wars
11 - The Rise of Athens (cont.)
13 - The Athenian Empire
24 - Twilight of the Polis (cont.) and Conclusion
17 - The Peloponnesian War, Part I
14 - The Athenian Empire (cont.)
15 - Athenian Democracy
18 - The Peloponnesian War, Part I (cont.)
16 - Athenian Democracy (cont.)
21 - The Struggle for Hegemony in Fourth-Century Greece
22 - The Struggle for Hegemony in Fourth-Century Greece (cont.)
19 - The Peloponnesian War, Part II
20 - The Peloponnesian War, Part II (cont.)
23 - Twilight of the Polis
Introduction
The Dark Ages
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The Rise of the Polis
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The Persian Wars
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The Rise of Athens
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The Dark Ages (cont.)
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