Slaughtering of the Cattle

As Odysseus and his men traveled back home from Troy they were to pass that island of Thrinacia, but the goddess Circe told them to pass the island. Odysseus, though, had a mutiny on his hands and decided to appease his men by going on the island. He told his men not to touch anything, though, as the deal breaker. As they got to shore, a southern wind that would have blown them back to Crete. As their month supplies wasted away, Odysseus went inland, and his men slaughtered the cattle of Helios by the encouraging of by Eurylochus. Helios then killed Odysseus' men and destroyed his last ship.

Homer, Odyssey, XII.261-419.