Editing Gaius Mucius Scaevola (section)

==In popular culture==
*[[Dante Alighieri]] refers to Mucius and the sacrifice of his hand within the ''[[Divine Comedy]]''. In ''[[Paradiso (Dante)|Paradiso]]'' Canto 4: 82–87, along with [[St. Lawrence]], Mucius is depicted as a person possessing the rarest and firmest of wills. 
*In a poem in ''[[Marthae Marchinae Virginis Neapolitanae Musa Postuma|Musa Posthuma]]'', Martha Marchina compared Mucius unfavorably to the martyr [[Marius, Martha, Audifax, and Abachum|Martha]] and suggests that Martha was the stronger hero because she suffered worse on behalf of God.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Marchina|first=Martha|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kaP6VenzAf8C&q=virago|title=Musa Posthuma|publisher=|year=1662|isbn=|location=Rome|pages=77}}</ref>  
*[[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]] mentions in Book One of his ''[[Confessions (Rousseau)|Confessions]]'' that as a child, he attempted to replicate Mucius' action by placing his hand over a [[chafing dish]].
* At the age of twelve, [[Friedrich Nietzsche]], attempting to prove to his classmates at [[Schulpforta]] that the story could be true, burnt his outstretched palm over a book of burning matches without expression of pain and was only saved from serious harm by the school's prefect.<ref>{{cite book|title=Nietzsche and the Modern Crisis of the Humanities|author=Levine, Peter |page=3|publisher=State University of New York Press|year=1995}}</ref>
*[[Gordon Scott]] portrayed Mucius in the [[sword-and-sandal]] film ''[[Hero of Rome]]'' (1964), which was loosely based on this story.
*Since 1991 Spanish cultural association Fuerzas de Choque Extraordinarii from the {{ill|Carthaginians and Romans|es|Carthagineses y Romanos}} festivities of [[Cartagena, Spain|Cartagena]] has Gaius Mucius Scaevola as their commander.
[[File:Peter Paul Rubens - Mucius Scaevola before Lars Porsenna.jpg|thumb|220px|''Mucius Scaevola before Lars Porsenna'' by [[Peter Paul Rubens]], [[Pushkin Museum]]]]
* In the 2022 television series [[Gaslit (TV series) |''Gaslit'']], [[James W. McCord Jr.|James McCord]] says to [[G. Gordon Liddy]] "Gaius Scaevola would be proud". McCord is referring to an earlier conversation where Liddy describes holding his hand over a candle in order to prove to several Cubans that he was "macho". This was part of a program Liddy followed to develop his willpower.<ref>{{cite news |last=Woodward |first=Bob |date=1980-05-18 |title=
Gordon Liddy Spills His Guts |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1980/05/18/gordon-liddy-spills-his-guts/aeb77942-67e2-4c39-b249-c5628100ac1a/ |work=The Washington Post |location=Washington, D.C. |access-date=April 17, 2023}}</ref>