Elio Lo Cascio (born 31 May 1948) is an Italian

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and teacher of Roman history at the Sapienza University of Rome.Personal website
at Sapienza University of Rome Lo Cascio's main research interests are the institutional, administrative, social and

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history of

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from the

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to the Late Empire, and Roman population history.

Life

Lo Cascio was born in

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, in 1948. He studied

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at the Sapienza University of Rome (1966–70), where he was a pupil of Santo Mazzarino. From 1973 to 1986, he was assistant professor and then associate professor of Roman History at the Universities of Rome and Lecce. In the years 1976–78, he spent several semesters as a visiting scholar at the

University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209, the University of Cambridge is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, wo ...

, where Moses I. Finley was Professor of

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at the time. Between 1986 and 1990, he taught as full professor of Roman History at the University of L'Aquila, and from 1990 to 2006 at the University of Naples Federico II. Lo Cascio is currently Professor of Roman history at the Sapienza University. In 1993 and 2001, he was member of the School of Historical Studies of the

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, Princeton, and in 2009 visiting professeur at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales,

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. As of 2010, Lo Cascio is a member of the "Consiglio direttivo" of the "Istituto Italiano per la storia antica"; he is on the scientific committee or the editorial board of several periodicals: the ''Annali dell'Istituto Italiano di Numismatica'', ''Atene e Roma'', '' Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione Classica'', ''Rivista di storia economica'' and ''Studi storici''. He is also the editor of the series ''Pragmateiai. Collana di studi e testi per la storia economica, sociale e amministrativa del mondo antico'', published by Edipuglia.

Recent works

* ''Production and Public Powers in Classical Antiquity'', Cambridge: Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Association, Suppl. Vol. 26, 2000 (co-editor), * ''Il princeps e il suo impero. Studi di storia amministrativa e finanziaria romana'', Bari: Edipuglia, 2000, * ''Mercati permanenti e mercati periodici nel mondo romano'', Bari: Edipuglia, 2000 (editor), * ''Roma imperiale. Una metropoli antica'', Roma: Carocci, 2000 (editor), * ''Credito e moneta nel mondo romano'', Bari: Edipuglia, 2003 (editor), * ''Cycles and Stability. Italian Population before the Demographic Transition (225 B.C. – A.D. 1900)'', Rivista di Storia Economica, Vol. 21, No. 3, 2005, pp. 197–232 (co-author),

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* ''Innovazione tecnica e progresso economico nel mondo romano'', Bari: Edipuglia, 2006 (editor), * ''The Early Roman Empire: The State and the Economy'', in Scheidel, Walter; Morris Ian; Saller, Richard (eds.), The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. 619–647, * ''Forme di aggregazione nel mondo romano'', Bari: Edipuglia, 2007 (co-editor), * ''Crescita e declino. Studi di storia dell’economia romana'', Roma: L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2009, * ''Agricoltura e scambi nell'Italia tardo-repubblicana'', Bari: Edipuglia, 2009 (co-editor), * ''L'impatto della "peste antonina"'', Bari: Edipuglia, 2012 (editor), * ''Ancient and Pre-modern Economies. GDP in Roman Empire and Early Modern Europe'', in de Callataÿ, François (ed.), Quantifying the Greco-Roman Economy and Beyond, Bari: Edipuglia, 2014, pp. 229–51 (co-author),

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Recent works

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