This list was provided by Dr. James Holoka, Professor Foreign Languages and History at Eastern Michigan University, who notes that (despite this list) he "did enjoy the movie nonetheless. Pitt was a fine Achilles. And Homer would have loved the combat scenes (though the Iliad itself is a lot gorier)."

	Big Ticket Items:
	The war took ten years, not seventeen days
	Achilles was dead by the time the Horse was built and deployed
	Menelaus wasn?t killed by Hektor
	Menelaus got Helen in the end (Telemachus, Odysseus? son, visits them in Sparta in Book 4 of the Odyssey, ten years after the war)
	Agamemnon was killed by his wife, Clytemnestra, back in Greece, immediately after the war
	Aias (Ajax) was not killed by Hektor; he committed suicide when not given the armor of Achilles after Achilles? death
	Paris died at Troy (of an arrow wound, appropriately)
	Andromache, Hektor?s wife, was captured and enslaved
	Baby Astyanax, Hektor?s son, was tossed off the walls after having his brains bashed out by Odysseus
	Patroklos was older, not younger than Achilles and was not his cousin
	Briseis was from Lyrnessos, not Troy, and was neither a priestess of any kind nor the cousin of Hektor
	Minor Details:
	Spelling error: It was ?Phthia,? not ?Phtia? (on the opening map) that Achilles came from
	Menelaus was out of town when Helen ran off with Paris
	Hektor never went to Sparta
	Achilles? mother, Thetis, was a sea-goddess
	Coins could not have been placed on corpses? eyes, because coins didn?t get invented till five or six centuries later
	Homer?s heroes fought mostly with spears, not swords
	The style of ships in the film is anachronistic by six or seven centuries
	The style of helmet of Achilles and others is anachronistic by five centuries or so
	The statuary throughout Troy is anachronistic by five centuries or complete fantasy (like the giant seated figure in Priam?s throne room)
	The columns tapering downward are Minoan (Cretan), not Trojan
	Achilles predeceased his father, Peleus, whom Priam refers to as dead
	Helen had a daughter by Menelaus before the war
	Both population and physical size of Troy are off by a factor of ten in the film
	The main gate of Troy had to be partially dismantled for the Horse to fit through
	The Greeks feigned sailing away and parked around the other side of a nearby island (no lone rider along the shore could have seen the ships)
	Achilles? Myrmidons did not leave early
	Achilles? son, Neoptolemos, not Achilles himself, participated in the final sack of Troy
	The lower city of Troy was protected by a deep trench, not a fifty-foot high wall
	Neither Agamemnon nor anyone else, till Alexander the Great, unified all of Greece
	A big river (the Scamander) ran through the plain in front of Troy
	Achilles killed twelve Trojans at Patroklos?s funeral to burn along with his corpse
	Aeneas, whom Paris meets entering the tunnel at the end, was not a kid, but a warrior who had fought Achilles on the battlefield
	Hektor lost his nerve and ran from Achilles (all the way round the city three times), before facing him for the final shootout
	Helen took up with another Trojan, Deiphobus, after the death of Paris
	Troy Links:
	Troy's Fallen! Archaeology magazine How do all the Troy productions stack up? Archaeology magazine gets down (way down) to the details.
	Movie Review by Roger Ebert "Troy is based on the epic poem The Iliad by Homer, according to the credits. Homer's estate should sue."
	Official Warner Bros. Movie Website Flash required (of course)
	Real and virtual Troy MSNBC.com article

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