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'
Statue of Diogenes Statue of Diogenes The Statue of Diogenes () is a monument to the Ancient Greek philosopher Diogenes of Sinope born in Sinop, Turkey in about 412 BC. Sinop is known as the birthplace of Diogenes in the 5th century BC. Sinop municipality decided to erect a statue of Diogenes. Its creator was Turan Baş of the Ondokuz Mayıs University in Samsun. The statue was erected in 2006. It is situated at the center of the narrowest point of Sinop Peninsula isthmus. Other historically notable places of the city are close to the monument. The tall statue depicts Diogenes the Cynic