Alcippe
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- Alcippe is also a genus of birds in the Timaliidae family.
Alcippe, or Alkippê is the name of five figures in Greek mythology.
1. 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.
2. Alcippe an amazon, vowed to remain a virgin. She was killed by Heracles during his ninth labour. [1]
3. Alcippe was the mother of Daedalus by Eupalamus, son of Metion.[2]
4. Alcippe, one of the Alcyonides, daughters of Alcyoneus. Along with her sister she threw herself into the sea and was turned into a kingfisher. [3]
5. Alcippe, one of the attendants of Helen. [4]
6. Alcippe, daughter of Oenomaus. She married Evenus, son of Ares and Sterope and bore a daughter Marpessa.[5]
