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Did you know that Ares/Mars had a daughter called Alcippe? Well, some bastard of Poseidon tried or succeeded (depends on the version) to rape her.

So the God of War killed him.

He was prosecuted (first trial of murder, ever) and the olympian gods found him innoccent.


theoi.com/Olympios/AresWrath.html#Halirrhothios

>Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. 180 (trans. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) :
>"Agraulos [daughter of Kekrops king of Athens] and Ares had a daughter Alkippe. As Halirrhothios, son of Poseidon and a nymphe named Eurtye, was trying to rape Alkippe, Ares caught him at it and slew him. Poseidon had Ares tried on the Areopagos with the twelve gods presiding. Ares was acquitted."

>Pausanias, Description of Greece 1. 21. 4 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) :
>"There is a spring [near the Akropolis, Athens], by which they say that Poseidon's son Halirrhothios deflowered Alkippe the daughter of Ares, who killed the ravisher and was the first to be put on his trial for the shedding of blood."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcippe_(daughter_of_Ares)

>Alcippe (daughter of Ares)

>In Greek mythology, Alcippe (Ancient Greek: Ἀλκίππη, Alkippe) is daughter of Ares and the mortal princess Aglauros.

>Mythology
>According to myth, she was attacked and, in some versions, raped on the beach of Athens by Halirrhothius, a son of the God of sea, Poseidon.

>Her father, Ares, came to her aid, and killed Halirrhothius. Poseidon demanded justice for his son, and Ares was judged by the Court of the Gods in what, according to the myth, was the first trial in history. The trial had place on Areopagus, a hill adjacent to the Acropolis of Athens who taken its name by this event.

>Ares claimed to have killed Halirrhothius to defend/avenge his daughter from rape, and Alcippe confirmed her father's statement. The gods believed them and, as there were no witnesses to the contrary, completely acquitted Ares.According to Panyasis however, it seems that Ares is condemned to serve among mortals, probably as a price for this murder.