Adikia
demonic Greek single tradition · 2
Adikia is the goddess and personification of injustice and wrong-doing in Greek mythology. She is depicted as a hideous, barbaric woman covered in tattoos, often being punished by Dike, the goddess of justice.
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When
- First attested
- 500 BCE
- Attested period
- -500 – -300
- Historical notes
- Depicted in archaic vase paintings and on the chest of Cypselus.
Relationships
- manifests as
- Abyzou, Myia, Petomene, Anabardalea, Gello, Gyllou, Amorphous, Karkhous, Brianê, Bardellous, Aigyptianê, Barna, Kharkhanistrea
- enemy of
- Dike
- manifested by
- Gyllou, Amorphous, Karkhous, Brianê, Bardellous, Aigyptianê, Barna, Kharkhanistrea, Myia, Petomene, Anabardalea, Gello
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“My first and special name is called Gyllou; the second Amorphous; the third Abyzou; the fourth Karkhous; the fifth Brianê; the sixth Bardellous; the seventh Aigyptianê; the eighth Barna; the ninth Kharkhanistrea; the tenth Adikia”
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“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.”
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