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 Club series featuring original Diogenes Club head Charles Beauregard and his protégé Edwin Winthrop, as well as recurring Newman character Geneviève Dieudonné. The final story ties in with Newman's "Doctor Who" novella, "Time and Relative". Published in 2010, the final Diogenes Club collection visits all of the time periods and protagonists featured in previous collections, culminating in "Seven Stars", which tracks the progress of the Jewel of Seven Stars, a powerful magical artifact which originates in the Bram Stoker novel of the same name and which interacts with all the major Diogenes Club characters throughout history. Diogenes Club series The Diogenes Club