 William Shakespeare, in his 1606 play "Antony and Cleopatra" (Act I, Scene 2), notes that Marc Antony's wife, Fulvia died in Sicyon.Historically, she died there in 40 BC while in rebellion against Octavius Caesar.Friedrich Hölderlin's novel "Hyperion" from 1797 starts at the "paradisiac plain of Sicyon".