| Greek Name |
Transliteration |
Latin Spelling |
Translation |
| Adikia |
Adikia |
Adicia |
Injustice (adikia) |
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Dike & Adicia, Athenian amphora C6th B.C.,
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
ADIKIA (or Adicia) was the spirit (daimona) of injustice and wrong-doing. She was depicted as an ugly barbarian woman with tattooed skin. Her opposite number was Dike (Justice) who was sometimes represented beating her with a club.
| PARENTS |
Nowhere stated, perhaps NYX or ERIS |
Pausanias, Description of Greece 5. 18. 2(trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) :
"[Amongst the images on the chest of Kypselos dedicated at Olympia :] A beautiful woman is punishing an ugly one, choking her with one hand and with the other striking her with a staff. It is Dike (Justice) who thus treats Adikia (Injustice)."
Sources:
- Pausanias, Description of Greece - Greek Travelogue C2nd A.D.
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