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About John F. Hall
- John Franklin Hall (born April 14, 1951) 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 (Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt, or Rise and Fall of the Roman World).
- 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.
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