Diogenes the main character in its sequel, "Kushiel's Justice". The character Lucy Snowe in Charlotte Brontë's novel "Villette" is given the nickname Diogenes. Diogenes also features in Part Four of Elizabeth Smart's "By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept". He is a figure in Seamus Heaney's "The Haw Lantern". In Christopher Moore's "", one of Jesus' apostles is a devotee of Diogenes, complete with his own pack of dogs which he refers to as his own disciples. His story opens the first chapter of Dolly Freed's 1978 book "Possum Living". The dog that Paul Dombey befriends in Charles Dickens'
Diogenes and Alexander and Diogenes. The painting in turn was to become the inspiration for the anthropomorphic dogs in Disney's "Lady and the Tramp". Charles Darwin and Briton Rivière agreed with each other that the hair of the Alexander dog was inaccurately represented. Diogenes and Alexander The meeting of Diogenes of Sinope and Alexander the Great is one of the most well-discussed anecdotes from philosophical history. Many versions of it exist. The most popular relate it as evidence of Diogenes' disregard for honor, wealth, and respect. Plutarch and Diogenes Laërtius report that Alexander and Diogenes died on the same day, in 323 BC.