Adikia

In Greek mythic and visual traditions Adikia is not recounted with a developed personal mythology but is attested as the named personification of injustice. Literary and lexicographical sources record the term ἀδικία (adikia) as meaning 'injustice' or 'wrong-doing' (from a- 'not' + díkē 'justice'), and iconographic programs and secondary summaries place Adikia in the role of the antithesis of Dike. Some modern secondary references and genealogical summaries attribute possible parentage to primordial figures such as Nyx or Eris, a placement consistent with Greek practices of listing personified vices among the offspring of Night or Strife, but such parental attributions are noted in the modern record as uncertain rather than established in surviving primary texts.

Archaic vase-paintings and a paraphrase of a representation on the chest of Cypselus (as described by later commentators) consistently portray Adikia as an ugly, barbaric, or disfigured woman—descriptions include her being 'hideous' and covered in tattoos—who is physically overmastered by a beautiful, poised figure of Dike. Visual motifs include Adikia being dragged, choked, or struck with a staff by Justice; the contrast in beauty and posture between Dike and Adikia serves to encode moral and aesthetic opposition.

The sources provide no catalogue of supernatural powers for Adikia; she functions primarily as a conceptual personification of injustice and wrong-doing. In literary and artistic contexts she is the entity that embodies moral violation and is depicted as subject to punishment or suppression by Justice. Surviving evidence treats her role as representational: a named figure used to dramatize the existence and defeat of injustice rather than as an independently active supernatural agent with described magical faculties.