Hera avenging her desecrated temple
Livy 42.3
>Q. Fulvius Flaccus, the censor, was building the temple of Fortuna Equestris and was quite determined that there should be no larger or more magnificent temple in Rome. [...] The beauty of the temple would be enhanced, he thought, if it were roofed with marble tiles, and with this object he went down to Bruttium and stripped off half the roof from the temple of Juno Lacinia, as he considered this would furnish sufficient tiles to cover his temple. [...] Not content, he was told, with violating the noblest temple in that part of the world, a temple which neither Pyrrhus nor Hannibal had violated, he did not rest till he had cruelly defaced it and almost destroyed it. With its pediment gone and its roof stripped off, it lay open to moulder and decay in the rain. [...]
Livy 42.28
>Q. Fulvius Flaccus, who had been censor the year before. He met with a tragic death. His two sons were serving in Illyria, and he received intelligence that one had died and that the other was dangerously ill. Between grief and anxiety his mind gave way; the slaves, on entering his room in the morning, found that he had hanged himself. He was considered to be out of his mind at the close of his censorship, and there was a general belief that he had been driven mad by Juno Lacinia, in her anger at his spoliation of her temple.
(Note: Croton, where the temple of Hera Lacinia was kept, was an Archaic Greek city in Southern Italy, and held the single most famous temple in all of Italy for hundreds of years. It was thought that the sanctuary had been made for Hera by Thetis after the Trojan war. A place where they together could mourn Achilles, whom Hera had loved and protected as best she could throughout the war, just as Thetis did. Thetis also likely brought forth all breeds of cattle to the grounds of the temple, which were held as sacred to Hera and were never touched by humans or animals, but slept in their stables and fed themselves of their own accord)
I was reading this story at 42.3 and after he tried to make amends by bringing parts of the roof back (but not putting them back on the roof because, quote, "the contractors didn't know how") I was surprised the story didn't end more gruesomely/with the goddess getting revenge. Then I was remembered that I was reading about history, not mythology, so I moved on. Few lines later and Livy did not disappoint.