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Welcome to Zero to Well-read, a podcast about everything you need to know about the books you wish you'd read. I'm Jeff O'Neill.

And I'm Rebecca Sinsky. Join us today as we journey back to ancient Greece, and we attempt to solve the riddle of Oedipus the King. Before we jump in, though, if you're enjoying the show, we would sure appreciate it if you would share it with friends. and of course leaving us a rating or review on Apple Podcast apple podcasts, Spotify or wherever you're listening is a huge help as the show continues to grow.

We are really thrilled with the response that we've had so far. We had a little time on the

Apple Podcasts homepage that's been very exciting to us. And as a little incentive to keep

the magic going, if we can get to 150 ratings on Apple podcasts, we're going to add a special holiday episode. You know, I'm tempted not to tempt the fates, to tempt prophecy and sort of get people to rate in review because here's what we learn for Metapus, the King, Rebecca, because we don't know what we're doing. We don't. We don't. We don't know what's going to happen. And it goes disastrously wrong if you try to control your fate.

And even when you think that you're making good decisions, you can be plagued by the fear that you've

been doing it wrong all along, and it might turn out that you have been. We were joking a little bit

before we started recording this episode that we've had

some nice response and we do see some variation based on the book we're talking about. And I don't

know, Rebecca, where Oedipus the king is going to fall. It's an unusual text and we're going to get into a lot of the ways, but I was

thinking about this, and I wasn't sure to put this in the hot takes or wherever else when I put it,

but of the works that are this famous, like people, if they don't know anything about edipus,

they've heard the story, they know the word Oedipus, they've heard maybe Oedipal Complex,

because Freud was just

doing so much cocaine, but there is no adaptation to reference. There isn't like a even, I've

never heard of one, like that, like that's in the cultural consciousness at all. There have been

movies and stuff done, but they don't survive into the current cultural moment.

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