Odysseus is still alive.
Elpenor was encountered by Odysseus in the underworld.
Odysseus went to the Underworld to get advice for his journey home.
Because he is a living person and only the dead must stay in the Underworld. Also, he does not go into the Underworld, but speaks to it's ghosts.
Odysseus became surrounded by more and more ghosts who had appalling cries and was afraid that Persephone might send up the head of the Gorgon (which turns men to stone.)
Elepnor
Odysseus went to the Underworld to get advice for his journey home.
Elpenor was encountered by Odysseus in the underworld.
Odysseus went to the Underworld to get advice for his journey home.
Because he is a living person and only the dead must stay in the Underworld. Also, he does not go into the Underworld, but speaks to it's ghosts.
Circe told Odysseus how to reach the Underworld.
In the Odyssey, he did not go into the Underworld but merely summoned ghosts of the dead to speak to him.
The blind prophet that Odysseus meets in the Underworld is Tiresias.
the underworld
the underworld
Odysseus
Odysseus became surrounded by more and more ghosts who had appalling cries and was afraid that Persephone might send up the head of the Gorgon (which turns men to stone.)
The blind Theban prophet that Odysseus meets in the Underworld is Tiresias, also spelled Teiresias.