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
Statue of Diogenes standing with his dog on his dwelling barrel and searching for an honest man in the far with his lamp in the hand. According to the Turkish daily "Milliyet", some politicians criticized the decision of the municipality on the ground that Diogenes searched for an honest man and thus insulted the honest people of Sinop. However, that legend had been originated in Athens and not in Sinop. 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