<span>Because it was a trial. Elpenor was drunk when Odysseus and his crew were finally leaving Circe’s island. He was climbing down from her roof when he slipped from a ladder and broke his neck. In the commotion, no one noticed his accident. Later, when Odysseus visits Hades to get advice on how to return home from the ghost of Tiresias, he is shocked to encounter the shade of Elpenor. He hadn’t even realized he was missing, let alone dead. Elpenor begs Odysseus to return and to give him an honorable burial. So now Odysseus is forced to sail all the way back to Circe’s island to fulfill this new obligation. It becomes one more task that he must accomplish before he can return home to Ithaca—otherwise known as a trial.</span>
I’m taking a guess but I would say, weak: off topic
There are choices included in this question.
<span>A. a mother and child were made out of clay.
B. a little girl fell from a cloud.
C. a man and a woman were made out of mud.
D. a young man was formed from sea foam.
The Old Man made the first people by: A. A MOTHER AND CHILD WERE MADE OUT OF CLAY. </span>
That Claudius is a true villain when hamlet found out that he was going to kill him laertes dad got tricked and so laetes was going to kill hamlet for Claudius
