Alcippe (Greek mythology)
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Alcippe or Alkippê was a name attributed to six figures in Greek mythology.
- Alcippe was the daughter of Ares and Aglaulus. When Halirrhotius, son of Poseidon, raped her, Ares killed him, a crime for which he was tried in a court, the first trial in history, which took place on the hill near the Acropolis of Athens named Areopagus, named, according to this etiological myth, after Ares. He was acquitted in court by all of the other Olympian gods.
- Alcippe, one of the Alcyonides, daughters of Alcyoneus. Along with her sisters she threw herself into the sea and was turned into a kingfisher.[3]
- Alcippe, daughter of Oenomaus. She married Evenus, son of Ares and Sterope and bore a daughter Marpessa.[5]
[edit] References
- ^ Diodorus Siculus. Library of History, 4.16.3.
- ^ Apollodorus. The Library [1]
- ^ Theoi Project - Nymphai Alkyonides
- ^ Homer. Odyssey, 4.120.
- ^ Plutarch. Greek and Roman Parallel Stories, 40.
