theseus is enslaved alongside the thief stavros (stephen dorff). phaedra, who is being held prisoner nearby, sees a vision of theseus and organizes a riot, and theseus uses the chaos to escape with stavros and the other slaves. theseus attempts to pursue hyperion by hijacking a boat, but he and his allies are attacked by hyperion's soldiers. poseidon deliberately disobeys zeus by diving into the sea from olympus and causing a tidal wave which drowns hyperion's men. when phaedra sees a vision of theseus standing near a shrouded corpse, she determines he must return to bury his mother. despite theseus's scepticism, his mother believed in the gods and therefore must receive a proper burial.