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.
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Odysseus is still alive.
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.
In the Odyssey, he did not go into the Underworld but merely summoned ghosts of the dead to speak to him.
Circe told Odysseus how to reach the Underworld.
The blind prophet that Odysseus meets in the Underworld is Tiresias.
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The blind Theban prophet that Odysseus meets in the Underworld is Tiresias, also spelled Teiresias.