What are the main differences between the movie Troy(2004) and the epic The Illiad?

Question by me yo: What are the main differences between the movie Troy(2004) and the epic The Illiad?
What are the main differences between the movie Troy(2004) and the epic The Illiad.
Or The movie and what really happened?

The only thing I can determine is that they really condensed the movie. The Trojan war lasted 10 years. The movie makes it seem like 2 weeks went by.
Another difference I can see is that Odysseus didn’t have a big part about making the Trojan horse. Wasn’t it his idea?

Best answer:

Answer by George
Lets not forget that in the poem the Gods were actively involved in the fight. Apollo gave Paris the arrow that pierced Achilles for desecrating his temple.

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