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 undertaken by English actors performing in German-speaking lands. While scholars generally agree that "Fratricide Punished" is a memorial reconstruction descended from some form of "Hamlet", it remains uncertain from which "Hamlet" it comes. The differences and similarities between "Fratricide Punished" and the three major forms of "Hamlet" were examined line-by-line by George Duthie in his 1941 criticism of the so-called "bad quarto" of Q1, and the "Variorum" of Furness published the texts side-by-side as well. Their analyses found a play that contained elements both of Q1 "Hamlet", published in 1603 but unknown until 1823, and the more familiar versions of