The historian Donald Kagan died on August 6. The newspapers I read have not run obituaries in print, though Politico had one on-line. Yale, where he taught for many years, did publish a thorough obituary on-line.
Of his work, I have read only Thucydides: The Reinvention of History, which is concise, closely argued, and very well written. His sometime student John R. Hale credited Kagan with the inspiration and title of Hale's Lords of the Sea: The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy and Birth of Democracy. I suppose the proper tribute to the man's memory would be to locate and read more of his writings.
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