Horatius Coclès

About the show

During an Etruscan siege, Horatius vows to defend Rome’s new republic. He guards the bridge while Roman forces cut it down, plunging into the Tiber but surviving. Mucius Scaevola recounts his failed assassination attempt and self-punishment; impressed, Porsenna abandons his conquest, and Publicola returns with the freed captives, including Horatius’s son.