Editing Elpenor (section)

==Modern uses==
The character of [[Patrick "Paddy" Dignam]], whose funeral is the focus of Episode 6 ("Hades") of ''[[Ulysses (novel)|Ulysses]]'' by [[James Joyce]], is a modern counterpart to Elpenor. This chapter of ''Ulysses'' is a main inspiration for the film ''[[Bye Bye Braverman]]''.

Elpenor is the subject of the short novel ''Elpénor'' by [[Jean Giraudoux]], published in 1919, which retells some of the stories of the ''Odyssey'' in humorous fashion.

[[Derek Mahon]] suggests Elpenor (but does not name him specifically) in his poem "Lives". Mahon talks of a decaying oar, planted in a beach, thinking of Ithaca. [[Ezra Pound]] references Elpenor in his poem [[Hugh Selwyn Mauberley]] by having the eponymous poet's grave marked by an oar, with an [[epitaph]] that recalls Elpenor's. Pound also makes use of Elpenor in the first of his Cantos: "But first Elpenor came, our friend Elpenor / Unburied, cast on the wide earth, / Limbs that we left in the house of Circe, / Unwept, unwrapped in sepulchre, since toils urged other."

[[Archibald MacLeish]] wrote a poem about Elpenor published in 1933. Nobel laureate [[Giorgos Seferis]] wrote a poem "Sensual Elpenor".<ref>George Seferis, Edmund Keely, Philip Sherrard. George Seferis: Collected Poems, 1924-1955. Bilingual Edition, Princeton University Press,  2014, p. 322.</ref> [[Takis Sinopoulos]] also wrote a poem called "Elpenor".<ref>Σινόπουλος Tάκης, "Ελπήνωρ" in Συλλογή, I, Eρμής 1976 [Sinopoulos Takis, "Elpenor" in Syllogi, I., Ermes, 1976.]</ref> [[Helen Dunmore]] included a poem "Odysseus to Elpenor" in her last published collection "Inside the Wave", 2017 Bloodaxe Books Ltd.

The video game ''[[Rock of Ages 3: Make & Break]]'' has a story mode where Elpenor is the main protagonist, after Odysseus (the traditional hero of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey) is flattened by the eponymous Rock of Ages.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://modusgames.com/news/rock-of-ages-3-story-characters/|title=Introducing the Story and Characters in Rock of Ages 3: Make & Break|website=Modus Games|language=en-US|access-date=2020-04-13}}</ref>