One interpretation of his motive is that it was in revenge for Achilles ' sacrilege in murdering Troilus, the god's own son by Hecuba, on the very altar of the god's own temple.

When Zeus struck down Apollo's son Asclepius with a lightning bolt for resurrecting Hippolytus from the dead ( transgressing Themis by stealing Hades's subjects ), Apollo in revenge killed the Cyclopes, who had fashioned the bolt for Zeus.

His revenge was to trap her in a magic throne, and then to demand Aphrodite's hand in return for Hera's release.

Although Christopher renounced his claim for revenge, he lay in wait for Nicholas in Friesling.

Aegisthus and Clytemnestra then ruled Agamemnon's kingdom for a time, Aegisthus claiming his right of revenge for Agamemnon's father Atreus having fed Thyestes his own children ( Thyestes then crying out " So perish all the race of Pleisthenes!

In an attempt to exact revenge for his forced exile, the physician would grow very close with Cambyses and would suggest that Cambyses should ask Amasis for a daughter in marriage in order to solidify his bonds with the Egyptians.

This infuriated Cambyses and he vowed to take revenge for it.

In reality, this goal was divided into three main efforts — to prepare for future invasion, to seek revenge against Persia, and to organize a means of dividing spoils of war.

In other versions, Artemis killed Adonis for revenge.

She kills Hroðgar's most trusted warrior, Æschere, in revenge for Grendel's death.

Campbell made a critically acclaimed dramatic guest role as a grief-stricken detective seeking revenge for his father's murder in a two-part episode of the fourth season of Homicide: Life on the Street.

In November 1920, the Tans " besieged " Tralee in revenge for the IRA abduction and killing of two local RIC men.

Taken together with an increased emphasis on discipline in the RIC, this helped to curb the random atrocities the Black and Tans committed since March 1920 for the remainder of the war, if only because reprisals were now directed from above rather than being the result of a spontaneous desire for revenge.

Incidents included the killing of three members of a pop band, the Miami Showband, by a gang including members of the UVF who were also members of the local army regiment, the UDR, and in uniform at the time, and the killing by the Provisionals of eighteen members of the Parachute Regiment in the Warrenpoint Ambush-seen by some as revenge for Bloody Sunday.

Southern Baptists support the fair and equitable use of capital punishment for those guilty of murder or treasonous acts, so long as it does not constitute as an act of personal revenge or discrimination.

It states that revenge is a primary motivation for capital punishment policy and that true healing can only take place through repentance and forgiveness.

They reassured him that they were not one of the battalions looking for revenge.

Juno, enraged that her attempt at revenge had been frustrated, appealed to Oceanus that the two might never meet his waters, thus providing a poetic explanation for their circumpolar positions.

Xiombarg is goaded into attacking the City directly in revenge for Arioch's banishment.

Professor Xavier recruits Gambit to go with him to Australia to find and help Rogue who is currently staying at the X-Men's old base in the outback ; unaware Danger is using Rogue as a conduit for her revenge against him.

Towards the end of 54, Agrippina would order the murder of Silanus ' eldest brother Marcus Junius Silanus Torquatus without Nero's knowledge, so that he would not seek revenge against her over his brother's death.

One such example is the centuries-old debate about Hamlet's hesitation to kill his uncle, which some see as a mere plot device to prolong the action, but which others argue is a dramatization of the complex philosophical and ethical issues that surround cold-blooded murder, calculated revenge, and thwarted desire.

By a nymph, Pareia, he had four sons, Eurymedon, Nephalion, Chryses and Philolaus, who were killed by Heracles in revenge for the murder of the latter's two companions ; and by Dexithea, one of the Telchines, he had a son Euxanthius.

He organizes a campaign of murder in order to steal enough money to return to Earth to take revenge on the Cult Leader who put him there.

An alcohol-soaked fever dream involving revenge, greed and murder in the Mexican countryside, the film featured Warren Oates as a thinly disguised self-portrait of Peckinpah, and co-starred a leather bag containing the severed head of a gigolo being sought by a Mexican patrone for one million dollars.

Additionally, Nauplius, in revenge for the murder of his son Palamedes, set up false lights in Cape Caphereus ( also known today as Cavo D ' Oro, in Euboea ) and many were shipwrecked.

* The Catholic League rebels against King Henry III of France, in revenge for his murder of Henry I, Duke of Guise.

As the military operation was still in progress, there were cases of Romanian troops " taking revenge " on Jews in Bessarabia, in the form of pogroms on civilians and murder of Jewish POWs, resulting in several thousand dead.

In 523 Clotilde finally took revenge for the murder of her father, when she incited her sons against her cousin King Sigismund of Burgundy, the son of Gundobad, and provoked the Burgundian War, which led to Sigismund's deposition and imprisonment, and his assassination the following year.

Originally used mostly to disrupt distribution of alcohol by rivals, it is now used to commit revenge murder.

Claire blames the San Francisco City Government for her husband's murder, so she has enlisted Swann's help to get revenge by blowing up city hall.

Tatiana was rumored to have been present at Rasputin's murder on 17 December 1916, " disguised as a lieutenant of the Chevaliers-Gardes, so that she could revenge herself on Rasputin who had tried to violate her.

Josey Wales, a Missouri farmer, is driven to revenge by the murder of his wife and son by a band of pro-Union Jayhawkers — Senator James H. Lane's Redlegs from Kansas.

When Athamas returned to his second wife, Ino, Themisto ( his third wife ) sought revenge by dressing her children in white clothing and Ino's in black and directing the murder of the children in black.

She and her brother Orestes plotted revenge against their mother Clytemnestra and stepfather Aegisthus for the murder of their father, Agamemnon.

It is Pylades who convinces Orestes to follow through with his plan for revenge and carry out the murder.

The murder has apparently been carried out by Sherlock Holmes ( who signs his name Rache, an allusion to Doyle's first novella starring Holmes and Watson, A Study in Scarlet, in which the word Rache – German for revenge – is found written above the body of a murder victim ) and Doctor Watson.

He was birthed for the sole purpose of killing Höðr as revenge for Höðr's accidental murder of his twin brother, Baldr.

With help from the Hawkman villain I. Q., Prometheus plans on creating the ultimate weapon in mass murder, a massive doomsday device which he plans on using to destroy entire cities, as part of his revenge scheme against the JLA for lobotomizing him.

The 8th Lord was killed by the Johnstones during a fight at Dryfe Sands, and in 1513 the 9th Lord Maxwell was executed for the revenge murder of Sir James Johnstone.

However, as his three brothers are soon to be executed for murder by the British, his subjects believe that their Green Goddess has delivered into their hands three victims for their revenge.

It may also be that Æthelred wished for revenge for the murder of the sons of Eormenred of Kent ; the murders had been instigated by Ecgberht of Kent, Hlothhere's brother, and it is possible that Æthelred was the uncle of the murdered princes.