Corrected entry: When the wooden horse is being pulled into Troy, there is an overhead shot in which you can tell that it's at least 15 feet taller than the city gates. How did they get it inside?
Rlvlk
17th Jul 2005
The Odyssey (1997)
23rd Feb 2005
The Odyssey (1997)
Corrected entry: Achilles' corpse is covered in wounds when they unveil it. But when Odysseus sets the torch on him, all of these wounds have disappeared.
Correction: He was the son of a goddess. In the original myth, Zeus prevented any damage to be done to Hector's body after death and left him looking better than when he was alive. Achilles' mom stepped in here.
24th Feb 2005
The Odyssey (1997)
Corrected entry: No coins are put on Achilles' eyes or tongue at his funeral. In Greek times, they always would put coins in either the eyes or tongue of the dead so that they could pay the ferryman in the Underworld.
Correction: Not always and Achilles was the son of a goddess. According to the myths, Hercules climbed atop his pyre still alive with no coins. There are many more references like that in the myths.
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Correction: It was intentional. The Trojans had to take apart part of the walls and gates to get it in. The Greeks couldn't break through the Trojan walls so they built the horse intentionally bigger than the gate. They left behind one man with a story to entice the Trojans to get the horse into the city. This way, the Trojans broke through their own walls allowing the rest of the Greek army into the city.
Rlvlk