The movie Troy is based on a not so true story known as the Iliad by Homer, which scholars believe that he may not have written it himself. The Iliad is 99 percent fiction with very little actual history in it. The story was inspired by the past and the stories that were handed down for generations to generation and then recorded by Homer. Although it is believed that Homer was not the only writer.
What the movie got right is that there was actually a city of Troy. The walls surrounding Troy were quite high, more than 27 feet, even though the walls in the movie were higher, they represented the strength of the walls that were discovered. The coastline would have been about a mile from the fortress during the time period of the story, which …show more content…
The movie shows Hector killing Menelaus in the movie; while in The Iliad, Menelaus survives the war. The movie shows gigantic statues in the city of Troy that were gold and stone; statues such as these would not have exist in the late Bronze Age in either western Asia Minor or Greece. The ones that were used were most likely copied from around the sixth century B.C. Greek statues. In the Greek story of the Trojan War, Odysseus and Achilles dodged the war in very unusual ways. To get out of the war, Odysseus pretended to be insane while Achilles disguised himself as a woman. There is also no evidence that during this time period that Greece was ever under the command of one king, while the movie depicts Agamemnon, as king of almost all of …show more content…
The fighting of the time was fierce and the conquering of other people was a constant, looking for treasures as well as enslaving their captives. There is more of a reflection of how we would like to think of the past than how it actually was. The romantic love story and the epic battles are more of a modern twist than what would have actually happened during this time period. This film offers us no true view of the past as it is not a true account of what happened to the city of Troy. There are a few things that point to things that makes us look at our lives today, such as people fighting for reasons that are not truly understood and things that are not that
What the movie got right is that there was actually a city of Troy. The walls surrounding Troy were quite high, more than 27 feet, even though the walls in the movie were higher, they represented the strength of the walls that were discovered. The coastline would have been about a mile from the fortress during the time period of the story, which …show more content…
The movie shows Hector killing Menelaus in the movie; while in The Iliad, Menelaus survives the war. The movie shows gigantic statues in the city of Troy that were gold and stone; statues such as these would not have exist in the late Bronze Age in either western Asia Minor or Greece. The ones that were used were most likely copied from around the sixth century B.C. Greek statues. In the Greek story of the Trojan War, Odysseus and Achilles dodged the war in very unusual ways. To get out of the war, Odysseus pretended to be insane while Achilles disguised himself as a woman. There is also no evidence that during this time period that Greece was ever under the command of one king, while the movie depicts Agamemnon, as king of almost all of …show more content…
The fighting of the time was fierce and the conquering of other people was a constant, looking for treasures as well as enslaving their captives. There is more of a reflection of how we would like to think of the past than how it actually was. The romantic love story and the epic battles are more of a modern twist than what would have actually happened during this time period. This film offers us no true view of the past as it is not a true account of what happened to the city of Troy. There are a few things that point to things that makes us look at our lives today, such as people fighting for reasons that are not truly understood and things that are not that