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Friday essay: ambition, our least liked virtue?

By Alastair Blanshard, Paul Eliadis Chair of Classics and Ancient History, The University of Queensland

Ambition is a two-edged sword: both creative and destructive. Debate about its value has raged since antiquity and there is a long tradition of casting ambitious women as monsters.

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