Deliberate mistake: The same shot of Odysseus killing a man with two swings of his sword is used twice in the battle scene.
Deliberate mistake: When Penelope gives birth to Telemachus it is obviously not a newborn baby.
Continuity mistake: When Elpenor says "We will not reach Ithaca without you" Odysseus replies "Yes you will" and hugs him. In that shot Odysseus' right hand is on Elpenor's back, but in the next as Odysseus says "It is I who am lost" his hand is on Elpenor's head.
Tiresias: It is the journey itself that makes up your life.
Trivia: The makers placed an animatronic head over a sumo wrestler's body to create the cyclops.
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Answer: The Trojan War itself was a decade long, followed by Odysseus' ten-year journey home to Ithaca, so all told he was gone roughly twenty years.