# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/donald-kagan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:42:28.939Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/donald-kagan"
name: "Donald Kagan"
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description: "Donald Kagan was a Lithuanian-born American historian and classicist at Yale University specializing in ancient Greece. He formerly taught in the Department of History at Cornell University. Kagan was considered among the foremost American scholars of Greek history and is notable for his four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War."
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1932-05-01"
deathDate: "2021-08-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump