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 Idiot". In Cervantes' short story "The Man of Glass" ("El licenciado Vidriera"), part of the "Novelas Ejemplares" collection, the (anti-)hero unaccountably begins to channel Diogenes in a string of tart "chreiai" once he becomes convinced that he is made of glass. Diogenes gives his own life and opinions in Christoph Martin Wieland's novel "Socrates Mainomenos" (1770; English translation "Socrates Out of His Senses", 1771). Diogenes is the primary model for the philosopher Didactylos in Terry Pratchett's "Small Gods". He is mimicked by a beggar-spy in Jacqueline Carey's "Kushiel's Scion" and paid tribute to with a costume in a party by