Sophoclean Protagonist Crossword Clue

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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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New York Times03 Apr 1982	Down 45
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