InGreek mythology,Adicia orAdikia (Ἀδικία) was the goddess and personification ofinjustice and wrong-doing.^[1]

An image ofDike, the goddess ofjustice, overcoming Adikia appears in twoarchaic vase paintings.^[2] The scene was also shown on the chest ofCypselus, 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.^[3]

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).^[3]

She likely appeared in the now-lostOrphic Rhapsodies (a theogony attributed toOrpheus), in which she seems to have been the antithesis of Dike.^[4]

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