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headland of Elpenor’s funeral

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Canonical name
headland of Elpenor’s funeral
Disambiguator
None
Kind
Location
Scope
Individual
Parent location
Aeaean island
Editorial note
No editorial note published.

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Present entities

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

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armour to be burned with ElpenorItem1 observation
·Remembered

Elpenor’s armour was burned at the funeral headland.

See evidence text
“‘Then, when the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared, I sent some men to Circe’s house to fetch the body of Elpenor. We cut firewood from a wood where the headland jutted out into the sea, and after we had wept over him and lamented him we performed his funeral rites. When his body and armour had been burned to ashes, we raised a cairn, set a stone over it, and at the top of the cairn we fixed the oar that he had been used to row with. ”
barrow requested for Elpenor on the Aeaean shoreItem1 observation
·Remembered

Elpenor’s cairn was raised at the funeral headland.

See evidence text
“‘Then, when the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared, I sent some men to Circe’s house to fetch the body of Elpenor. We cut firewood from a wood where the headland jutted out into the sea, and after we had wept over him and lamented him we performed his funeral rites. When his body and armour had been burned to ashes, we raised a cairn, set a stone over it, and at the top of the cairn we fixed the oar that he had been used to row with. ”
ElpenorCharacter1 observation
·Remembered

Elpenor’s body was burned and buried at the funeral headland.

See evidence text
“‘Then, when the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared, I sent some men to Circe’s house to fetch the body of Elpenor. We cut firewood from a wood where the headland jutted out into the sea, and after we had wept over him and lamented him we performed his funeral rites. When his body and armour had been burned to ashes, we raised a cairn, set a stone over it, and at the top of the cairn we fixed the oar that he had been used to row with. ”
Elpenor’s rowing oarItem1 observation
·Remembered

Elpenor’s rowing oar was fixed atop his cairn at the funeral headland.

See evidence text
“‘Then, when the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared, I sent some men to Circe’s house to fetch the body of Elpenor. We cut firewood from a wood where the headland jutted out into the sea, and after we had wept over him and lamented him we performed his funeral rites. When his body and armour had been burned to ashes, we raised a cairn, set a stone over it, and at the top of the cairn we fixed the oar that he had been used to row with. ”
stone set over Elpenor’s cairnItem1 observation
·Remembered

The stone over Elpenor’s cairn was set at the funeral headland.

See evidence text
“‘Then, when the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared, I sent some men to Circe’s house to fetch the body of Elpenor. We cut firewood from a wood where the headland jutted out into the sea, and after we had wept over him and lamented him we performed his funeral rites. When his body and armour had been burned to ashes, we raised a cairn, set a stone over it, and at the top of the cairn we fixed the oar that he had been used to row with. ”
UlyssesCharacter1 observation
·Remembered

Ulysses performed Elpenor’s funeral rites at the headland.

See evidence text
“‘Then, when the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared, I sent some men to Circe’s house to fetch the body of Elpenor. We cut firewood from a wood where the headland jutted out into the sea, and after we had wept over him and lamented him we performed his funeral rites. When his body and armour had been burned to ashes, we raised a cairn, set a stone over it, and at the top of the cairn we fixed the oar that he had been used to row with. ”
Ulysses’ menCharacter1 observation
·Remembered

Ulysses’s men performed Elpenor’s funeral rites at the headland.

See evidence text
“‘Then, when the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared, I sent some men to Circe’s house to fetch the body of Elpenor. We cut firewood from a wood where the headland jutted out into the sea, and after we had wept over him and lamented him we performed his funeral rites. When his body and armour had been burned to ashes, we raised a cairn, set a stone over it, and at the top of the cairn we fixed the oar that he had been used to row with. ”

Claims

1
·Remembered

At a headland jutting into the sea, the company cuts firewood and performs Elpenor’s funeral rites.

See evidence text
“a wood where the headland jutted out into the sea, and after we had wept over him and lamented him we performed his funeral rites”

Additional evidence

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1
·Remembered
“the headland jutted out into the sea”

Passage preview

Book 12 · Passage 2

‘Then, when the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared, I sent some men to Circe’s house to fetch the body of Elpenor. We cut firewood from a wood where the headland jutted out into the sea, and after we had wept over him and lamented him we performed his funeral rites. When his body and armour had been burned to ashes, we raised a cairn, set a stone over it, and at the top of the cairn we fixed the oar that he had been used to row with.