Eko’s Monsignor

Season: 2, Episodes: 1, Faction: N/A

Overview

Eko’s monsignor, whose name is unknown, is a high ranking clergy within an Australian Catholic Church and was responsible for Mr. Eko.

Death

Sun (Fire)

Fertility (Water)

2×21 – ?

The Monsignor called Eko “Father Tunde”, and thought that he was legitimately serving as a priest.

The Monsignor assigned Eko to investigate the Charlotte Malkin resurrection. Eko told the Monsignor he wasn’t the right person for the job because he didn’t believe the Malkins’ story. The Monsignor replied that he chose Eko exactly because of his skepticism and sent him along his way.

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Decoded Season 2 Characters

Mr. Eko

Caldwell

Joyce Malkin

Charlotte Malkin

Key Episode(s) to Decoding the Character

2x21 "?"

Wiki Info

In Greek mythology, Tithonus or Tithonos was the lover of Eos, Titan of the dawn. He was a Trojan by birth, the son of King Laomedon of Troy by a water nymph named Strymo. The mythology reflected by the fifth-century vase-painters of Athens envisaged Tithonus as a rhapsode, as the lyre in his hand, on an oinochoe of the Achilles Painter, ca. 470 BC–460 BCE attests. Competitive singing, as in the Contest of Homer and Hesiod, is also depicted vividly in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo and mentioned in the two Hymns to Aphrodite.

Eos kidnapped Ganymede and Tithonus, both from the royal house of Troy, to be her lovers. The mytheme of the goddess’s mortal lover is an archaic one; when a role for Zeus was inserted, a bitter new twist appeared: According to the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, when Eos asked Zeus to make Tithonus immortal, she forgot to ask for eternal youth (218-38). Tithonus indeed lived forever

“but when loathsome old age pressed full upon him, and he could not move nor lift his limbs, this seemed to her in her heart the best counsel: she laid him in a room and put to the shining doors. There he babbles endlessly, and no more has strength at all, such as once he had in his supple limbs.” (Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite)

In later tellings he eventually turned into a cicada, eternally living, but begging for death to overcome him. In the Olympian system, the “queenly” and “golden-throned” Eos can no longer grant immortality to her lover as Selene had done, but must ask it of Zeus, as a boon.

Eos bore Tithonus two sons, Memnon and Emathion. In the Epic Cycle that revolved around the Trojan War, Tithonus, who has travelled east from Troy into Assyria and founded Susa, is bribed to send his son Memnon to fight at Troy with a golden grapevine. Memnon was called “King of the East” by Hesiod, but he was killed on the plain of Troy by Achilles. Aeschylus says in passing that Tithonus also had a mortal wife, named Cissia (otherwise unknown).

A newly-found poem on Tithonus is the fourth extant complete poem by ancient Greek lyrical poetess Sappho.

Eos and Tithonus (inscribed Tinthu or Tinthun) provided a pictorial motif that was inscribed on Etruscan bronze hand-mirrorbacks, or cast in low relief.

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