The day before Odysseus and his men are to leave the island, Elpenor gets very drunk, and falls asleep on the roof of Circe's house. When he awakes in the morning, he forgets he is on the roof and falls off of it, breaking his neck and killing himself.
Elpenor ends up meeting Odysseus and the crew in the underworld later, and asks Odysseus to bury his body properly and put his oar atop his grave.
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The men cremated and buried Elpenor's body with his armor, marking his grave site with his oar.
dominance of fate in mythology
Fontanel means "soft spot"; fate.
how did king acrisios tries twice to escape his fate
In Mythology fate wasn't used as a word but a creature three to be exact. To represent Fate they used a ball of yarn. One sewed (birth), nitted (problems,life) and snipped (death).