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The podcast opens with a passage from The Odyssey describing Oedipus's story, specifically noting that Daniel Mendelsohn's translation was used and that he appeared on a recent bonus episode.

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Referenced when discussing the Sphinx's origins, noting that Hesiod described her as a sibling of Cerberus and the Nemean lion in this work about the genealogy of the gods.

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Explicitly described as Freud's 'most groundbreaking book' which he had been working on for two years and published in 1899, featuring the story of Oedipus prominently.

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Referenced in connection with Aristotle's lost book on comedy, noting that 'Umberto Eco fans will recognize that in The Name of the Rose.'

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Referenced when discussing the plague in Oedipus, noting that Sophocles might have drawn from the opening of The Iliad where a plague rages in an army encampment.