The scene opens with a flashback to the time before the fall of the Leviathan. It is the winter of the year before the Trojan War, and the young Phaedra, who is the son of a wealthy landowner, has come to live with his father and his uncle in the house of the wealthy landowner's son. The Phaedras are the only ones who have acknowledged the legitimacy of the boy's identity, and they have accepted him as their savior. The boy, however, has no idea that his father has been using him as a tool to further his own interests. He is not aware of the fact that he is being used to further the interests of his uncle and his family.