Editing Elpenor (section)

==Later historic uses==
The story of Elpenor can be described as a mirror to the story of [[Palinurus]] in Virgil's ''[[Aeneid]]''. In the ''Aeneid'', Palinurus, one of Aeneas' men, falls overboard and ends up swimming to an island nearby. He is killed on the island by the natives that live there. Later on in the story, Aeneas travels to the underworld where he sees Palinurus. There, Palinurus pleads with Aeneas to give him a proper burial.

The story of Elpenor might be the basis of the story of [[Eutychus]] in the New Testament.<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://depts.drew.edu/jhc/mcdonald.html |title=Luke's Eutychus and Homer's Elpenor: Acts 20:7-12 and Odyssey 10-12 |editor-first=Dennis R. |editor-last=MacDonald |editor-link=Dennis R. MacDonald |publisher=[[Drew University]] |year=1996 |journal=[[Institute for Higher Critical Studies]] |pages=4-24 |first=Darrell J. |last=Doughty |author-link=Darrell J. Doughty |access-date=2 October 2018}}</ref>