Elio Lo Cascio (born 31 May 1948) is an Italian historian and teacher of Roman history at the Sapienza University of Rome.
[1] Lo Cascio's main research interests are the institutional, administrative, social and economic history of Ancient Rome from the Republic to the Late Empire, and Roman population history.
He studied Classics at the Sapienza University of Rome (1966–70), where he was a pupil of Santo Mazzarino.
In the years 1976–78, he spent several semesters as a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge, where Moses I. Finley was Professor of Ancient History at the time.
Collana di studi e testi per la storia economica, sociale e amministrativa del mondo antico, published by Edipuglia.