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{{Short description|Goddess of injustice}}
{{Greek myth (personified)}}

In [[Greek mythology]], '''Adicia''' or '''Adikia''' ({{lang|grc|{{linktext|Ἀδικία}}}}) was the goddess and personification of [[injustice]] and wrong-doing.{{sfnmp|1a1=Jordan|1y=2014|1p=4|2a1=Bell|2y=1991|2p=4}}

== Representation ==
An image of [[Dike (mythology)|Dike]], the goddess of [[justice]], overcoming Adikia appears in two [[Archaic Greece|archaic]] vase paintings.{{sfnp|Smith|2011|p=15}}  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.<ref name="Pausanias">{{harvp|Pausanias|1918|loc=[http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:5.18.2 5.18.2]}}.</ref>

<blockquote>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).<ref name="Pausanias"/></blockquote>

== Literature ==
She likely appeared in the now-lost [[Rhapsodies (Orphic literature)|Orphic Rhapsodies]] (a theogony attributed to [[Orpheus]]), in which she seems to have been the antithesis of Dike.<ref>''[[Pauly encyclopedias|RE]]'', s.v. Adikia.</ref>

== References ==
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=== Works cited ===
* {{cite book |last=Bell |first=Robert E. |title=Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary |publisher=[[ABC-Clio]] |year=1991 |isbn=978-0874365818}}
* {{Cite book |last=Jordan |first=Michael |title=Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses |year=2014 |publisher=Infobase Publishing |isbn=978-1-4381-0985-5 |language=en}}
*{{cite book |author-link=Pausanias (geographer) |author=Pausanias |title=Description of Greece |translator1=W. H. S. Jones |translator2=H. A. Ormerod |place=Cambridge & London |publisher=Harvard University Press / William Heinemann Ltd. |year=1918 |isbn=0-674-99328-4 |url=http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0160 |via=Perseus Digital Library}} 4 volumes.
* ''[[Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft]]'', Band I, Halbband 1, Stuttgart, J. B. Metzler, 1893. [https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Paulys_Realencyclop%C3%A4die_der_classischen_Altertumswissenschaft Wikisource].
*{{cite book |last=Smith |first=Amy C. |title= Polis and Personification in Classical Athenian Art |publisher=Brill |year=2011 |isbn=978-90-04-21452-1}}

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[[Category:Greek goddesses]]
[[Category:Personifications in Greek mythology]]
[[Category:Injustice]]


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