 Socrates says he has heard Eudicus' father, Apemantus, declare that there is a parallel analogy between the artistic quality of the Iliad and the moral quality of its main character, Achilles, and the quality of the Odyssey and the quality of its main character, Odysseus.The men do not pursue this thesis, that the moral status of the characters in a work of literature has some bearing on its artistry.Socrates does resurrect the idea in the "Republic", however, when he argues that Homer's classics would be better books if Achilles and the other warriors were presented as always righteous.