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 the dog is a discriminating animal which can distinguish between its friends and enemies. So do they recognize as friends those who are suited to philosophy, and receive them kindly, while those unfitted they drive away, like dogs, by barking at them. As noted (see Death), Diogenes' association with dogs was memorialized by the Corinthians, who erected to his memory a pillar on which rested a dog of Parian marble. Diogenes is discussed in a 1983 book by German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk (English language publication in 1987). In Sloterdijk's "Critique of Cynical Reason", Diogenes is used as an example of