- Movie Goof (factual errors): At the time of the Trojan War (circa 1260 BC) the inhabitants of Greece did not refer to themselves as Greeks but as Achaians, Danaans or Argives. (Although not always regarded as an error, since the movie claimed to be historical, we may not assume that we are hearing them through a modern English "translation" which uses the modern names for clarity.)
- Movie Goof (anachronisms): Vaccination mark on Achilles' left arm.
- Movie Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When the boy goes to find Achilles for him to go fight the enormous warrior from Thessaly he tells him that "the Thessalonian is huge". He should have said "Thessalian". A "Thessalonian" would be someone from Thessaloniki, a city that was not founded until centuries later (4th century BC) by Cassander, who became the king of Greece after Alexander's death. Cassander married Thessalonike, Alexander's sister and named the city after her to honor her.
- When Paris is helping the citizens of Troy escape, he hands Priam's sword to a young man named Aeneas and tells him that as long as the sword is in the hands of a son of Troy, the Trojans will survive. This is an obvious reference to Virgil aka Publius Vergilius Maro's epic poem, The Aeneid, which tells the story of a prince of Troy named Aeneas leading the survivors of Troy through a series of hardships before finally settling in Italy where his descendants where to found Rome 5 centuries later. However, Aeneas was the second greatest warrior the Trojans fielded during the war according to 'The Iliad', and was the son of Venus. These facts were also neglected in the movie and instead Aeneas was relegated to the role of a young boy. That boy should have been instead his son Julus, founder of the family of Gaius Julius Caesar.
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