The Last Days of Pompeii (1913)

Wellrespected Pompeiian Glaucus performs an act of kindness by purchasing Nydia a blind slave being mistreated by her owner Nydia falls in love with her new master but he only has eyes for Ione Ione in turn is lusted after by Arbace an Egyptian high priest of Isis When Nydia beseeches Isis for help in capturing Glaucus heart Arbace gives her a love potion an elixir made to drive Glaucus mad securing Ione for himself Ultimately Mount Vesuvius will end their lives and seal their fates in a terrible glorious eruption