Zeus tries to kill his infant son Leon to stop a patricide prophecy, but Leon survives and returns two decades later for revenge.
A foretelling that his newborn son Leon will commit patricide compels Zeus to order the infant's immediate execution. Only the combined intervention of the child's mother and the master Chiron spirits the boy away from certain death. Twenty years vanish before Leon reemerges as an adult, his survival unknown to the throne that condemned him. He returns driven by a vendetta against the father who tried to erase him before he could breathe.
Markers
- 1Patricide prophecy
- 2Divine infanticide attempt
- 3Twenty-year vendetta
Audience
Mythic revenge fuels this hidden-identity fantasy.
