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Donald Kagan (1932–2021)

Autore di La Guerra del Peloponneso

60+ opere 5,603 membri 35 recensioni 3 preferito

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Donald Kagan, Sterling Professor of Classics and History at Yale University

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Opere di Donald Kagan

La Guerra del Peloponneso (2003) 1,709 copie
The Western Heritage (1979) 274 copie
The Archidamian War (1987) 243 copie
Men of Bronze: Hoplite Warfare in Ancient Greece (2013) — A cura di — 67 copie
Great Issues in Western Civilization, Volume 1 (1967) — A cura di — 56 copie
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1962) — A cura di — 21 copie
Western Heritage: Brief Edition (1995) — Autore — 5 copie
Documents (2000) 3 copie
Nationalism: Friend Or Foe of Liberalism? (1967) — A cura di — 2 copie
Test Item File (2001) 1 copia
Instructors Manual (2001) 1 copia

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Nome canonico
Kagan, Donald
Data di nascita
1932-05-01
Data di morte
2021-08-06
Sesso
male
Nazionalità
USA
Lithuania (birth)
Luogo di nascita
Kuršėnai, Lithuania
Luogo di morte
Washington, DC, USA
Luogo di residenza
Lithuania
Brooklyn, New York, USA
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Washington, DC, USA
Istruzione
Brooklyn College (AB|1954)
Brown University (MA|1955)
Ohio State University (PhD|1958)
American School of Classical Studies, Athens, postdoctoral study (1958-59)
Attività lavorative
professor
historian
Instructor in history, Capital University
Instructor in history, Pennsylvania State University
Assistant professor, Cornell University
Associate professor, Cornell University (mostra tutto 15)
Professor of Ancient History, Cornell University
Professor of History and Classics, Yale University
Bass Professor of History and Classics and Western Civilization, Yale University
Sterling Professor of Classics and History, Yale University
Chair of Classics Department, Yale University
Master of Timothy Dwight College
Richard M. Colgate Professor
Acting Director of Athletics, Yale University
Dean of Yale College
Relazioni
Kagan, Myrna (wife)
Kagan, Robert (son)
Kagan, Frederick W. (son)
Kagan, Kimberly (daughter-in-law)
Organizzazioni
Yale University
Cornell University
Premi e riconoscimenti
Fulbright Grant to Greece (1958-59)
American Philosophical Society research grant (1960)
New York University summer seminar grant (1960)
Fellowship to Center for Hellenic Studies (1966-67)
DeVane Medal (1975)
Phi Beta Kappa (1975) (mostra tutto 15)
Distinguished Alumnus Award, Brooklyn College (1976)
National Endowment for the Humanities summer research fellowship (1984)
Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (1992-93)
Sidney Hook Memorial Award, National Association of Scholars (1994)
Guest scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center (1996)
Harwood Byrnes '08/Richard B. Sewall Teaching Prize, Yale College (1998)
National Humanities Medal (2002)
Jefferson Lecture (2005)
Sterling Professor, Yale University (2013)

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Durante tres décadas, en el siglo V a. C., el mundo fue devastado por una gran guerra tan dramática, decisiva y destructiva como las guerras mundiales del siglo XX: la guerra del Peloponeso, un episodio clave para entender el desarrollo posterior del mundo occidental y una sucesión interminable de batallas que inauguraba una época de brutalidad y destrucción sin precendentes en la historia. El relato contemporáneo a los hechos de Tucídides es la fuente principal para conocer esos acontecimientos, pero no la única, y en eso destaca Donald Kagan: en la escrupulosa y brillante contextualización de fuentes y hechos históricos. A partir de su ya clásica y aún no superada Historia de la guerra del Peloponeso en cuatro volúmenes, el autor, con estilo ágil y colorista que lo caracteriza, sintetiza en este ensayo varios años de guerras entre la alianza espartana y el imperio ateniense, el ascenso y caída de un mundo que sigue sirviéndonos aún hoy de punto de referencia para entender el presente. Y gracias a esa labor de investigación, estudio y resumen, nos ofrece una de las mejores obras de ensayo histórico sobre un conflicto bélico; una espléndida crónica del auge y caída de un imperio y de unos tiempos oscuros cuyas lecciones cobran pleno sentido en nuestros días. Sin duda, una referencia para todos los estudios y amantes del mundo antiguo. Una obra maestra sobre uno de los temas principales de la historia de la Antigüedad Clásica.

Donald Kagan (Kuršėnai, Lituania, 1 de mayo de 1932-Washington D. C., Estados Unidos, 6 de agosto de 2021)1​ fue un historiador estadounidense de la Universidad Yale especializado en la historia de Grecia, notable por sus cuatro volúmenes de la Guerra del Peloponeso. Fue deán del Yale College de 1989 a 1992.
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Accitanus | Jan 7, 2024 |
An absorbing book, providing a deep insight into what really causes, or leads to, armed interactions among countries and peoples. The chapters on the two world wars are especially absorbing. I, for one, got fresh insights into the role of individual leaders and statesmen like Bismarck, who balanced the European west and the east tirelessly and kept them from going to war. After his retirement, however, the bellicose factions gained ascendancy and took Europe into a devastating war. By drawing on the early examples of Sparta-Athens divisions in ancient Greece and the Rome-Carthage wars a little later, the author repeatedly makes the point that it is not only greed for plunder or land that leads to war between nations, but also, perhaps more usually, feelings of not being respected or given a just deal. Wars often become inevitable because of national pride and remembered or resurrected instances of humiliation or betrayal. His chapter on the Cuban missile crisis does not appear to me to be on par with the other examples, as he seems to be oscillating toward and away from a hawkish stance, and seems to be accusing John Kennedy of projecting a weak and pusillanimous character to the rough and bumptious Kruschev. On the whole, however, this author's analysis and insights into war and peace should surely improve our understanding of the current crises as well.… (altro)
 
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Dilip-Kumar | 2 altre recensioni | Sep 29, 2023 |
Read pages 285-307 during WWI portion of S&W at CNCS in Sept 2023.

From the syllabus: He also describes the end of the war and the problems of establishing a stable peace.
Key quotes: “The eventual superiority of sixty-five million Germans with greater natural resources over thirty-nine million Frenchmen with a lower birthrate was not checked by the Versailles Treaty.” P295
“The tragedy of the Treaty of Versailles was that it was neither conciliatory enough to remove the desire for change, even at the cost of war, nor harsh enough to make another war impossible.” P297… (altro)
 
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SDWets | 2 altre recensioni | Sep 19, 2023 |
Durante tres décadas del siglo V a.C., el mundo fue devastado por una guerra tan dramática, decisiva y destructiva como las guerras mundiales del siglo XX: la Guerra del Peloponeso, un episodio clave para entender el desarrollo posterior del mundo occidental y una guerra que inauguraba una época de brutalidad y destrucción sin precedentes en la historia.
 
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Natt90 | 20 altre recensioni | Jan 27, 2023 |

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