The name was also applied to a council of former archons, who assembled there.
According to one story, it was named after an epithet of Athene, who had cast the deciding vote in the second trial of Orestes. Another holds that it was here that Ares was tried for the murder of Halirrhothios, son of Poseidon. The name was also applied to a council of former archons, who assembled there. FTP name hill west of the Acropolis, which leant its name to John Milton's best-known prose work.
According to one story, it was named after an epithet of Athene, who had cast the deciding vote in the second trial of Orestes.
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