Ares slew Halirrhothios, son of Poseidon, for raping his daughter Alcippe near the Acropolis. Poseidon brought Ares to trial before the Olympian gods on the hill that became the Areopagus — the 'Hill of Ares' — where the war god was acquitted.
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