Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Elpenor.
On screen
TELEVISION · 1997READ MORE ↗
The Odyssey
Andrei Konchalovsky
Konchalovsky's miniseries keeps Elpenor's fall and underworld plea — the youngest crewman who begs Odysseus for burial rites.
TELEVISION · 1968READ MORE ↗
L'Odissea
Franco Rossi
Rossi's Italian-Yugoslav Odyssey gives Elpenor his Circean roof and Nekyia voice among the shades.
In play
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Odyssey
Homer
Books 10–12: the drunken fall from Circe's roof, the unburied shade who speaks first in Hades, and the cairn Odysseus raises on Aeaea.
WORK · 1783READ MORE ↗
Elpenor
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Goethe's unfinished tragedy borrows the Homeric name for a classical fragment — Elpenor as German neoclassical experiment.