As a well-known poison from ancient times, aconite is well-suited for historical fiction. It is the poison used by a murderer in the third of the Cadfael Chronicles, "Monk's Hood" by Ellis Peters, published in 1980 and set in 1138 in Shrewsbury. In "I, Claudius", Livia, wife of Augustus, was portrayed discussing the merits, antidotes, and use of aconite with a poisoner. It also makes a showing in alternate history novels and historical fantasy, such as S. M. Stirling's, "On the Oceans of Eternity", where a renegade warlord is poisoned with aconite-laced food by his own chief of internal security, and in the television show "Merlin", the lead character, Merlin, attempts to poison Arthur with aconite while under a spell. In the 2003 Korean television series "Dae Jang Geum", set in the 15th and 16th centuries, Choi put wolf's bane in the previous queen's food.