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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.The big hairy brutish man in the early part of the film who challenges all and sundry to a fight is called Boagrius. This man did not exist in the Homer story, but is the name of a river. Homer describes the trojan war as lasting about ten years, the film has it over and done with within a year.
Coins on the eyes of the dead during funeral fires is an old Greek custom, but at the time of Troy, there were no coins, they only appeared about 650 BC.
Having been to Mycenae, Agamemnon's home, and stood in his citadel, it is clear that Menelaus could never have approached it from the sea as shown in the film. Nearby Tyrrins in nearer the coast, but still not on it.
Right at the start of the film we see some street scenes in Troy. Look for some South American Llamas. Quite impossible in ancient Troy.
When I was last at the location of Troy it is not a desert with a flat sandy landscape as in the film, but wooded rolling hillsides with loads of olive trees.
Apollo was not the god of the Sun. This was a much later Roman confusion. Apollo was the bringer of truth, healing and music. Helios was the Sun god.
Anyway, despite all this, the film was a ripping yarn, but no substitute for reading the original Homer.
Your absolutely correct, glad to see i'm not the only one who was disapointed with the film, what you left out though, was depicted 100% wrongly in the film, and actuall took place after Homers iliad was finished. Paris, who in the film survived, was actually killed by the same poisened arrow that killed Achilles.