Diogenes Dombey and Son is called Diogenes. Alexander's meeting with Diogenes is portrayed in Valerio Manfredi's "(Alexander Trilogy) "The Ends of the Earth"". William S. Burroughs has been described as "Diogenes with a knife and gun." The many allusions to dogs in Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens" are references to the school of Cynicism that could be interpreted as suggesting a parallel between the misanthropic hermit, Timon, and Diogenes; but Shakespeare would have had access to Michel de Montaigne's essay, "Of Democritus and Heraclitus", which emphasised their differences: Timon actively wishes men ill and shuns them as dangerous, whereas Diogenes esteems them
Diogenes of Athens (tragedian) Diogenes of Athens (tragedian) Diogenes of Athens () was a writer of Greek tragedy in the late 5th or early 4th century BC. His works are listed by the Suda as "Semele", "Achilles, Helen, Herakles, Thyestes, Medea, Oedipus," and "Chrysippus". He was either born or flourished at the time of the Thirty Tyrants and the suppression of Athenian democracy, around 404–403 BC. This Diogenes is sometimes confused with Diogenes of Sinope, to whom a similar list of tragedies is attributed by Diogenes Laertius. Athenaeus preserves a geographically confused fragment from Diogenes, having to do with a laurel grove along the