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 Unlike human beings who either dupe others or are duped, dogs will give an honest bark at the truth. Diogenes stated that "other dogs bite their enemies, I bite my friends to save them." The term "cynic" itself derives from the Greek word κυνικός, "kynikos", "dog-like" and that from κύων, "kyôn", "dog" (genitive: "kynos"). One explanation offered in ancient times for why the Cynics were called "dogs" was because Antisthenes taught in the Cynosarges gymnasium at Athens. The word "Cynosarges" means the place of the "white dog". Later Cynics also sought to turn the word to their advantage, as a