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noun • (Greek mythology) a tragic king of Thebes who unknowingly killed his father Laius and married his mother Jocasta; the subject of the drama `Oedipus Rex' by Sophocles | ||||||||
15% | 8 | Homeric protagonist | ||||||
noun • a mythical Greek hero of the Iliad; a foremost Greek warrior at the siege of Troy; when he was a baby his mother tried to make him immortal by bathing him in a magical river but the heel by which she held him remained vulnerable--his `Achilles' heel' | ||||||||
15% | 8 | Protagonist in fiction | ||||||
noun • a protagonist who lacks the characteristics that would make him a hero (or her a heroine) | ||||||||
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