What's the Difference between The Iliad the Book and Troy the Movie?
In the Book |
In the Movie |
Paris and Menelaus offer to duel each other and end the war before it begins. |
Achilles's myrmidons sack Apollo's temple before the rest of the Greek forces arrive, effectively starting the war. |
Briseis remains with Achilles until after his death. |
Briseis returns to Troy with Priam.
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Briseis comes from Lyrnessus, and is captured by the Aecheans before the siege of Troy. |
Briseis is a Trojan priestess and Hector's cousin, captured during the attack on Apollo's temple. |
Agamemnon survives the war and is later killed by his wife, Clytemnestra. |
Agamemnon is killed by Briseis during the sack of Troy.
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Patroclus is Achilles' lover |
Patroclus is his cousin |