Gaius Mucius Scaevola

Gaius Mucius Scaevola (Left Hand ) is a person from early Roman history from the family Scaevola. The legend - as reported, for example, Livy ( Liv.2.12.1 - 13.5), stating that Scaevola had saved the city of Rome, when it was besieged in 508 BC by the Etruscan king Lars Porsena enemy.

Scaevola is said to have sneaked into the enemy camp to kill Porsena. When he was here taken, he stretched before the eyes Porsennas his right hand into an open flame. The burned hand without Scaevola was not impressed by the pain. Porsena was overwhelmed by this example of fortitude such that he broke off the siege of Rome.

Reception

1721 opera Il Muzio Scevola was launched in London's King 's Theatre in the Haymarket. The libretto was by Paolo Antonio Rolli, the music of Filippo Amadei ( Act 1 ), Giovanni Battista Bononcini ( Act 2 ) and Georg Friedrich Handel ( Act 3 ).

1964 was a free adaptation of the material basis for the Italian sword and sandal film Il Colosso di Roma ( in Germany released the Titan with the iron fist under the title ), in which Gordon Scott Gaius Mucius Scaevola embodied.