unburied dead demanding funerary rites

greek

• The Odyssey BOOK X / AEOLUS, THE LAESTRYGONES, CIRCE. / BOOK XI / THE VISIT TO THE DEAD.88; lines 4783-4874 confidence: high

  Elpenor's ghost appears first, says his body remains unburied at Circe's house after he died in a drunken fall, asks for cremation, a shore barrow, and his oar over the grave, and Ulysses agrees.

  Elpenor's ghost appears first, explains that his body is unwaked and unburied at Circe's house, and asks Ulysses for cremation, a shore barrow, and an oar over the grave.

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