Fratricide the fratricide would often come back to haunt Caracalla. There are many recorded fratricides in Persia. The most famous story is about Cyrus the Great's sons where Cambyses II killed his brother Bardiya. Also there are stories about the sons of Artaxerxes I, Xerxes II, Sogdianus and Darius II where they fought for the throne. Also there were many fratricides in the Parthian Empire and the Sassanid Empire. In the Ottoman Empire a policy of judicial royal fratricide was introduced by Sultan Mehmet II whose grandfather Mehmet I had to fight a long and bloody civil war against his brothers
Fratricide Punished version of "Hamlet" entitled "The Trage-D of Prince Hammy T." The play was directed by Randolph Curtis Rand. According to one reviewer, Rand chose to abandon more staid stage interpretations of "Hamlet" in order to highlight the comical elements of "Fratricide Punished". Toward that end, Hamlet himself was portrayed wearing a loud tuxedo costume reminiscent of John Travolta's character in "Saturday Night Fever," while the characters of the induction were portrayed as though members of The Addams Family. In 1981, Nino Amico suggested that "Fratricide Punished" was a play adapted for performance by puppets, sparking mild academic debate as well