One inhabitant of this place absolved the Argonauts for the death of Absyrtus and turned Picus into a woodpecker.
Two characters born here were rulers of the Tyrsenoi named Ardeas and Latinus. A character who died in this location asks to be burned in his armor and buried by the sea, with only an oar to mark his gravestone; that character broke his neck after slipping off a ladder in this location. One inhabitant of this place absolved the Argonauts for the death of Absyrtus and turned Picus into a woodpecker. This site of the death of (*) Elpenor was the birthplace of the father of Italus, who sacked an island that he thought was Corcyra and in the process killed his father with the spine of a stingray. In its most famous appearance, this island was visited shortly after Telepylus, the city of the Laestrygonians, and was the place where Hermes gave the herb moly to a certain hero. Eurylochus avoided its most famous inhabitant's use drugged wine to turn some sailors into swine. For 10 points, Odysseus and his remaining crew spent a year on which island, the home of the sorceress Circe?
Two characters born here were rulers of the Tyrsenoi named Ardeas and Latinus.
Aeaea [or Eëa; or Aiaia; anti-prompt on "Circe's house" or equivalents]