Diogenes Small, fictional character created by Colin Dexter in the Inspector Morse series of books
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The door wings are decorated with figures of ancient poets and philosophers (including Diogenes, Euripides, Plato and Homer).
Published in 2007, the second collection of stories covers the period of time between the Victorian era and the beginning of the 1970s, featuring original Diogenes Club head Charles Beauregard and his protégé Edwin Winthrop, as well as recurring Newman character Geneviève Dieudonné.
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They also interact with elements from other fictional settings; for example, in "Seven Stars", the Diogenes Club encounters the Jewel of Seven Stars, which originates in the Bram Stoker novel of the same name.
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Published in 2010, the final Diogenes Club collection visits all of the time periods and protagonists featured in previous collections, culminating in "Seven Stars", which tracks the progress of the Jewel of Seven Stars, a powerful magical artifact which originates in the Bram Stoker novel of the same name and which interacts with all the major Diogenes Club characters throughout history.
Barnes, Jonathan, "Diogenes Laertius IX 61–116: the philosophy of Pyrrhonism" in W. Haase and H. Temporini (ed.) Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt, II 36.6 (de Gruyter: Berlin/New York, 1992): pp.
His statue of Milo of Croton (Louvre) had been completed in 1682, Perseus and Andromeda (Louvre) in 1684; and Alexander and Diogenes (bas-relief, Louvre) in 1685, but, in spite of the personal favour which he enjoyed, Puget, on coming to Paris in 1688 to push forward the execution of an equestrian statue of Louis XIV, found court intrigues too much for him.
Other important philosophers and thinkers in the Sicilian Questions referred to are, in alphabetical order, Alexander of Aphrodisias, Anaxagoras, Berosus, Crates, Diogenes, Euclid, Al-Farabi, Galen, Al-Ghazali, Al-Hallaj, Ibn Bajja (Avempace) Ibn Sina (Avicenna), Iamblichus, Mellow, Parmenides, Pythagoras, Plato, Socrates, Themistius, Theophrastus, and Zeno of Elea.