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 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