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 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