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

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

and teacher of

Roman history The history of Rome includes the history of the city of Rome as well as the civilisation of ancient Rome. Roman history has been influential on the modern world, especially in the history of the Catholic Church, and Roman law has influenced m ...

at the

Sapienza University of Rome The Sapienza University of Rome ( it, Sapienza – Università di Roma), also called simply Sapienza or the University of Rome, and formally the Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", is a public research university located in Rome, Ita ...

.Personal website
at Sapienza University of Rome Lo Cascio's main research interests are the

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, administrative, social and

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history of

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from the Republic to the Late Empire, and Roman population history.

Life

Lo Cascio was born in

Palermo Palermo ( , ; scn, Palermu , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan province. The city is noted for it ...

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, in 1948. He studied Classics 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 Lecce ( ); el, label=Griko, Luppìu, script=Latn; la, Lupiae; grc, Λουπίαι, translit=Loupíai), group=pron is a historic city of 95,766 inhabitants (2015) in southern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Lecce, the provinc ...

. In the years 1976–78, he spent several semesters as a visiting scholar at the

University of Cambridge , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

, 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 The University of Naples Federico II ( it, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II) is a public university in Naples, Italy. Founded in 1224, it is the oldest public non-sectarian university in the world, and is now organized into 26 depar ...

. 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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, and in 2009 visiting professeur at the

École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (french: École des hautes études en sciences sociales; EHESS) is a graduate '' grande école'' and '' grand établissement'' in Paris focused on academic research in the social sciences. Th ...

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. ...

. 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

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s: the ''Annali dell'Istituto Italiano di Numismatica'', ''Atene e Roma'', ''

Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione Classica ''Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione Classica'' or ''Riv. Fil.''Oxford Classical Dictionary, Abbreviations is a peer reviewed Italian academic journal, Published by Brepols. It presents articles and essays on Greek and Roman Roman or Romans mo ...

'', ''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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