Myths and rituals create and reinforce the links between individuals and community and legitimize authority, involving the mimetic potential of performances. The Augustan principate was plenty of creation and recreation of rituals and myths, expressed in actions, spatial interventions, and a literature whose analysis can give us important keys to the understanding of the system of values, the use of traditions and innovations in Roman public space. This paper focus on the etiology of Fortuna Muliebris according to Dionysius of Halicarnassus. The narratives of Fortuna Muliebris are significant for the analysis of the system of values and gender roles in Augustan Rome, and verbal and visual elements of the performance of the characters are linked to norms and traditions the ritual of supplicatio.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus; Fortuna Muliebris; myth and ritual.