| adakia? is it for real? (Wed Apr 16, 2003 3:58am ET) | report post |
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by brieanna
in all my (limited) greek mythology studies....I can't find this word! Does it exist? I don't know. Please keep me posted. We are producing Labute's "bash", and I'm very eager to know if this word is for real. 
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| Re: adakia? is it for real? (Sun Mar 18, 2007 5:25am ET) | report post |
| by Dick St George
Brienna,
It's 4 years after your posting. I'm hoping that you learned more about "adakia" by now and that you can help me with its meaning. I am an American director working on BASH in Hungary with Hungarian University actors. My guess about the word is that the Woman just remembers it wrong which could be either a statement on her as a student or him as a teacher.
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| Re: adakia? is it for real? (Fri Sep 23, 2005 9:45pm ET) | report post |
| by Sarah Hardesty
In Medea Redux they say its about the world flying off its axis and it is the fault of mortals. The world is inverted, doing good things are bad and bad things are good. It is like the opposite of destiny.
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| Re: adakia? is it for real? (Fri Feb 18, 2005 7:25pm ET) | report post |
| by Rachel Kayhan
Please let me know any info you find on "adakia"
My e-mail: rachelkayhan@comcast.net. Thanks
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| Re: adakia? is it for real? (Sat Oct 17, 2009 2:01pm ET) | report post |
| by Greek Scholar
Just to confirm that Adakia makes more sense as a mangling of the greek "Adikia" than "Ataxia". The root term from the former, Dike, means a specifically human order, and is used in describing the customary way of mortals in Homer, later coming to be associated with the process of justice and one's rights.
Most relevant is the sense of Dike as the consequence of an action, an atonement or penalty, with Adikia being a noun meaning a crime or offense that goes unpenalized. Euripides himself uses it in this sense in the Orestes line 28, as a charge made against Apollo for his role in pushing Orestes to murder his mother.
Hence the teacher taking advantage of the student without punishment is an Adikia, but her means of penalizing him is also an Adikia against her son, hence she is unable to punish the teacher in a just way, and the human world remains "out of whack".
As another possibility, "Ataxia" is ultimately unconvincing, because the word and its root Taxis are not associated with crime in ancient greek texts, but troop formations, the physical ordering of men and their discipline in battle. Hence Ataxis/Taxis may mean disorder/order, but not the type on display in the play.
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