The great Old Testament murders are fratricides, whether actual (Cain killing Abel) or symbolic (Jacob cheating Esau, Joseph’s brothers selling him into slavery). Plenty of awful things happen between parents and their children, too, but they don’t involve outright slaughter. In fact, that sort of thing is declared out of bounds early on and in no uncertain terms among the Hebrews: when Abraham gets ready to sacrifice his boy Isaac per God’s instructions, an angel famously intervenes, and a whole new era is born. Offing your brother? Sometimes necessary. But leave your parents and progeny alone.
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The ancient Greeks, on the other hand—pretty much obsessed with intergenerational mayhem. Even for Zeus, it was a matter of kill or be killed by his supremely vicious papa. The house of Atreus was a veritable festival of parricide, what with Agamemnon sacrificing daughter Iphigenia (no angelic intervention there), Orestes doing in mother Clytemnestra, and, back farther, Atreus himself feeding his nephews to their dad in the manner of another fabulous parent, Medea.
