The way we behave or what we consider right or wrong shape the way our society works and the way we relate with others daily. How to live a good life? What are our rights and responsibilities as citizens and humans? What is good and bad? Questions like these have always sparked debate in societies, often affecting the private and the public life of entire communities, and ancient Greek and Roman debate has generated a large corpus of philosophical writing, hugely influencing how we think about morality and ethics today. Understanding the role morality and ethics had in ancient political and philosophical thought will help you get a better understanding of the role it plays in modern society.

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What is justice? Is it a moral, ethical concept or does it reflect more practically a legal and political practice? And when was the concept of justice theorised in Western society? And how far the ancient debate on justice reflect on contemporary philosophical and political thought and practice?

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How far can the understanding of the way death was performed in the Classical world help our understanding of its role in modern society and more generally of the way humans interact in the contemporary world? The way we celebrate death reflects notions and beliefs that belong to the living. In other words, funerary practice reveals a range of social practices and beliefs, from attitudes towards body transformation to public and private performance, addressing a transition from a status of the living to a status of the dead. The way individuals and societies celebrate death reflects therefore their cultural and social identity.

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