Jon Hall

MA (St And) PhD (Texas), Associate Professor
Email jon.hall@stonebow.otago.ac.nz

Dr Jon Hall has degrees from St Andrews and Texas, and most recently has published a book with Oxford University Press on Cicero's letters. He has also co-edited a volume on Roman rhetoric, and written articles and book chapters on Cicero's speeches, treatises and correspondence. His teaching interests include Roman oratory, literature and society.

Papers taught 2010

First Semester:

CLAS224: Life and Death in Roman Society

CLAS331: Research Methods in Classics

Second Semester:

LATN212/329: Intermediate/ Advanced Latin 2

Recent publications include:

Politeness and Politics in Cicero's Letters (Oxford University Press 2009)

Blackwell Companion to Roman Rhetoric (co-edited with W. Dominik) (Oxford 2007)

"Serving the Times: Cicero and Caesar the Dictator"
In Writing Politics in Imperial Rome eds. W. Dominik, J. Garthwaite and P. Roche (Leiden 2009) 89-110

"The Rhetorical Design and Success of Cicero's Twelfth Philippic"
In Cicero's Philippics: History, Rhetoric and Ideology eds. T. Stevenson and M. Wilson (Auckland 2008) 282-304

"Oratorical Delivery and the Emotions: Theory and Practice"
In Blackwell Companion to Roman Rhetoric eds. W. Dominik and J. Hall (Oxford 2007) 218-34

"Politeness and Formality in Cicero's Letter to Matius (Fam. 11.27)" Museum Helveticum 62 (2005) 193-213

"Roman Politeness and the Socialization of Marcus Cicero the Younger"
In Roman Crossings eds. K. Welch and. T. Hillard (Swansea 2005) 263-82

"Cicero and Quintilian On the Oratorical Use of Hand Gestures" Classical Quarterly 54 (2004) 143-60

"Performative Elements in Cicero's Orations: an Experimental Approach"
Prudentia 34 (2002) 187-228

"Cicero's Philippics" In Handbook to Cicero's Oratory ed. J. May (Leiden 2002) 273-304

"Performing Cicero in the Classroom" Classical Journal 95 (1999) 163-172

"Grave goods" In The Chora of Metaponto: The Necropoleis ed. J. C. Carter (Austin 1998) 563-90

"Burial descriptions" (with J. C. Carter) In The Chora of Metaponto: The Necropoleis
ed. J. C. Carter (Austin 1998) 237-447

"Cicero to Lucceius (Fam. 5.12) in its social context: valde bella?"
Classical Philology 93 (1998) 308-321

"The deference-greeting in Roman society" Maia 50 (1998) 413-426

Audio-visual material

Dr Hall has also produced a 35-minute video on the performative elements of Cicero's oratory (with Assoc. Prof. Robin Bond, University of Canterbury). For details on how to obtain a copy of the video, click here.

In 2006 he completed a DVD featuring a complete performance in Latin of Cicero's Pro Archia. For details on how to obtain a copy of the DVD, click here.

University of Otago, Division of Humanities Research Cluster

Dr Hall is a member of the Classical Culture and Society Research Cluster.