John F. Hall

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John F. Hall (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) is a Professor of Classics and Ancient History at Brigham Young University. He was a student of R. E. A. Palmer. Hall specializes in Rome during the reign of Augustus. He has also made contributions in the subdiscipline of Etruscology. Hall is best known for his work on the Secular Games, which was published in the well-respected ANRW. He has written on a variety of topics, a number of which focus on figures of Roman history with an Etruscan background. For example, he proposed that the Roman poet Vergil had Etruscan ancestry.

Hall is a past president of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, a professional organization for Classicists.[1] He was instrumental in arranging, organizing, and hosting the inaugural exhibit of the Brigham Young University Museum of Art, The Etruscans, which featured artifacts from the Vatican's collection of Etruscan antiquities. Professor Nancy T. DeGrummond, the US's premier Etruscologist, also advised the exhibit. In connection with this exhibit, Hall edited the volume Etruscan Italy, which featured contributions from noted Roman historians, Etruscologists, and members of the BYU faculty.

Hall currently possesses the Eliza R. Snow chair, and is actively engaged in a university effort to retranslate the New Testament, which is to be accompanied by copious amounts of historical and religious commentary. This translation will be aimed at an LDS readership.

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ CAMWS: The Classical Association of the Middle West and South

[edit] Bibliography

"P. Vergilius Maro. Vates Etruscus," Vergilius 28 (1982), 44-50.

"The Saeculum Novum of Augustus and its Etruscan Antecedents," ANRW II.16.3 (1986), 2564-2589.

"Livia's Tanaquil and the Image of Assertive Etruscan Women in Latin Historical Literature of the Early Empire," AugAge 4 (1985), 31-38.

"L. Marcius Philippus and the Rise of Octavian Caesar," AugAge 5 (1986), 37-43.

"The Original Ending of the Aeneas Tale: Cato and the Historiographical Tradition of Aeneas," Syllecta Classica 3 (1992), 13-20.

Etruscan Italy, Provo: The Brigham Young University Museum of Art, 1996.


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