Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction.

Quote by Donald Kagan

Kagan Donald. Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy. New York: The Free Press.

" At present Kagan is considered among the foremost scholars of Greek history. He was Dean of Yale College from 1989 to 1992.