The Iliad, one of Homer's epics, was written about a ten-year war between the city of Troy and the city-states Greeks. This great poem, still somewhat widespread today in modern society, is the story of the Trojan War. Recently, the epic was recreated in a two-hour film fraught with historical inaccuracies, although in some cases it follows the Iliad quite well. Some of the mistakes Hollywood makes are minor details, like when the Trojans brought the gigantic wooden horse into the city of Troy. In the Iliad, the gates had to be taken down, which was not shown in the film, with the horse simply being brought into the city. Nonetheless, the inaccuracies far outweighed any real historical relevance in the Iliad. Examples are the actual duration of the war. In history, it lasted ten years, in cinema, barely 17 days. Another example is that in the Epic, Achilles was actually dead before the Trojan Horse infiltrated the city. In the movie Troy and the Iliad, there are many instances where reality and Hollywood clash, such as the characters' backgrounds, geography, and the war itself. Much of the historical Trojan War was based on the geographic layout of the city of Troy. In the film, Troy is surrounded by walls measuring forty to fifty feet high. In the film, Priam, king of Troy, while there was a river in front of Troy on the plains of the battlefield. While this may seem like a minor detail once again left out by Hollywood, it actually played a pretty important role in the Iliad. Having a river in any situation makes all the difference. If the river was included in the film, everything from the battles to the invasion of Troy to the basic daily tasks of the film's characters would be changed. The exclusion of the river in the film represents a large part of reality that was harshly excluded by