Donald Kagan Quote

The hoplites drove the tyrants from power and created broad oligarchies in their place.

Donald Kagan

The hoplites drove the tyrants from power and created broad oligarchies in their place.

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About Donald Kagan

Donald Kagan (; May 1, 1932 – August 6, 2021) 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.