"Father Zeus! the rest of you blissful gods who never die –
punish them all, that crew of Laertes’ son Odysseus –
what an outrage! They, they killed my cattle,
the great joy of my heart…day in, day out,
when I climbed the starry skies and when I wheeled
back down from the heights to touch the earth once more.
Unless they pay me back in blood for the butchery of my herds,
down I go to the House of Death and blaze among the dead."
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 12, lines 404-412. The sun god Helios demands revenge against Odysseus’ men for the crime of killing and eating his cattle. He appeals to the father of the gods Zeus to punish them.