A city at the edge of the Bay of Naples in Italy lies stricken, and terror stalks the streets as Vesuvius, a volcano dormant for one thousand years awakens and spits death into the sky. To bring us up to date, let us call upon that young, Greek architect, Marcus Aurilius Rufus, who happened to be living on Roman soil in that seaside suburb of Pompeii that fateful third week in August 79AD.