While Odysseus was staying on Aeaea, Circe's island, Elpenor became drunk and climbed onto the roof of Circe's palace to sleep. The next morning, waking upon hearing his comrades making preparations to travel to Hades, he forgot he was on the roof and fell, breaking his neck, and died in the act.

How did Elpenor die in Book 11?

Who is Elpenor and where and how did he die? He was one of Odysseus' men; he died at Circe's when he fell off a roof and broke his neck while drunk.

What happens to Elpenor at the end of Book 10?

Circe drugs a band of Odysseus's men and turns them into pigs. ... He discovers, however, that the youngest man in his crew, Elpenor, had gotten drunk the previous night, slept on the roof, and, when he heard the men shouting and marching in the morning, fell from the roof and broke his neck.