Smellin' of Troy: "What follows is a partial list of discrepancies between 'Troy the Big-Budget Hollywood Movie' and 'Troy the Epic Poem and Archeological History'."

Big Ticket Items:
The war took ten years, not seventeen days
Achilles was dead by the time the Horse was built and deployed
Menelaus wasn’t killed by Hektor
Menelaus got Helen in the end (Telemachus, Odysseus’ son, visits them in Sparta in Book 4 of the Odyssey, ten years after the war)
Agamemnon was killed by his wife, Clytemnestra, back in Greece, immediately after the war
Aias (Ajax) was not killed by Hektor; he committed suicide when not given the armor of Achilles after Achilles’ death
Paris died at Troy (of an arrow wound, appropriately)
Andromache, Hektor’s wife, was captured and enslaved
Baby Astyanax, Hektor’s son, was tossed off the walls after having his brains bashed out by Odysseus
Patroklos was older, not younger than Achilles and was not his cousin
Briseis was from Lyrnessos, not Troy, and was neither a priestess of any kind nor the cousin of Hektor