For the God of Bloodlust He's Kind of a Softy, Stories of Ares
Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean
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The Areopagus Hill in Athens
Pausanius, who wrote about the history and culture of greece by travelling all around asking the locals for their story. When ares found out that his daughter had been assaulted by a man named halrotheus, he killed him. He was then put on trial for this murder in athens, and on that hill of the areopagus, he was acquitted. So we get this eteological myth of ares and his acquittal. And it has an even stronger history, directly connecting two the actual governing body of classical athens. Plus it has to be one of the few stories of a father exacting this kind of revenge for a crime committed against his
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