In Greek mythology, Adicia or Adikia () was the goddess and personification of injustice and wrong-doing.
Representation
An image of Dike, the goddess of
justice, overcoming Adikia appears in two
Archaic Greece vase paintings. The scene was also shown on the chest of
Cypselus, in which Adikia was portrayed as a hideous, barbaric woman covered in tattoos being dragged by Dike with one hand, while in the other she held a staff which she beat her with or she is depicted being throttled by Dike.
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A beautiful woman is punishing an ugly one, choking her with one hand and with the other striking her with a staff. It is Justice (Dike) who thus treats Injustice (Adikia).
Literature
She likely appeared in the now-lost Orphic Rhapsodies (a theogony attributed to
Orpheus), in which she seems to have been the antithesis of Dike.
[ RE, s.v. Adikia.]
Works cited
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4 volumes.
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Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, Band I, Halbband 1, Stuttgart, J. B. Metzler, 1893. Wikisource.
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