I can’t help but laugh at this adaptation of Elpenor half dramatically blaming Oddie for his tragic death The original story had him asking Odysseus to bury him respectively was more impactful “I ask that you remember me, and do not go and leave me behind unwept, unburied, when he leave, for fear I might become the gods’ curse upon you; but burn me there with all my armor that belongs to me, and heap up a grave mound beside the beach of that gray sea, for an unhappy man, so that those to come will know of me. *Do this for me, and on top of the grave mound plant the oar with which I rowed when I was alive and among my companions”*
Fastest boat ever. Yapping time: We know that those who died in Epic aren't actually talking to Ody and are just saying what they last thought before dying, but this situation has a question and response kinda thing. So I bring you this: Option 1-"He just built different": For some reason, being him dying in a expecific way or just him having died recently, Elpenor can just do that Option 2-"Sad": Ody is just gaslinghting himself into thinking he's having a conversation with Elpenor when he's not Option 3: This was simply made before Jorge thought of that and what I'm doing is a waste of time (Option 2 is sad to me cuz that would mean that, when he fell, Elpenor stayed conscius long enough to ponder the situation and panicked in the end thinking that nobody would notice nor care cuz there are a bunch of other people who also died)
@@omarsalem1219 My thoughts exactly (But Ody also started asking his mother if she could see him and stuff like that, so it isn't that wrong to imagine the possibility of him thinking he could talk to Elpenor when he couldn't)
We know though? Odysseus DOES talk with Elpenor and some of his fellow greek kings that died after the fall of Troy in the underworld. Polites and his mother not recognizing him is more because of the fact they drink the water of the river and are losing their memories
