Donald Kagan, Leading Historian of Ancient Greece, Dies at 89 - The New York Times - 0 views
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He saw baseball as a Homeric allegory, one in which a hero — the batter — ventures from home and must overcome unforeseen challenges in order to return. That view set up one of his most celebrated articles: a withering review in The Public Interest of the columnist George Will’s book “Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball” (1990).
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Professor Kagan received a National Humanities Medal in 2002. Three years later he delivered the annual Jefferson Lecture,
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he praised the study of history but warned that it was succumbing to the influence of postmodern relativism.
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