Corrected entry: There are numerous historical mistakes in the art. Much of it is Minoan, not Greek, or Greek of a later period than the Trojan War of the 11th or 12th century BC.
J I Cohen
6th Jun 2004
Troy (2004)
20th May 2004
Troy (2004)
Corrected entry: This movie is spoken in English however, when the Greeks invade the beach at Troy and the camera pans over the ships you can hear another language spoken that sounds like Ancient Greek. This seems illogical considering none of the primary and even secondary actors even attempted a Greek accent and this movie was not one that proclaimed the need for subtitles.
Correction: This is just the submitter disagreeing with what was probably an intentional decision by the film makers (or garbled dialogue).
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Correction: While modern archaeological evidence suggests that Troy lost a war (not necessarily *the* war) around 1180 BC, the Iliad was almost definitely a work of fiction, not a historical record of events, and was not necessarily set when the historical events happened. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy, and http://www.archaeology.org/0405/etc/troy.html/.
J I Cohen