The movie was awesome,but it was a lot different from the book!I read "Illiad" from cover to cover and I just think that everything is a little too different!

it was mandatory for school but i just read the summary!

i read the book like last summer and it was really good but i like couldnt understand most of it. i mean im 13. The movie was much more understandable!!!! but there both amazing!!!!! im alltogether jut obsessed eith Troy!!!!

The book is awesome however there is too much politics

not rlly true, ive only read about half

I tried reading the Odyssey but I really didn't take to it, but since I love Troy and I pretty much know most of the story, I think I would enjoy the Iliad.

Yes, I am Gree so I have.
But I love both.
Homer's epic poem is amazing
but I also love the movie, although it's kind of different. I don't blame the writers for not making the movie exactly like the book, I am not that type of person, I mean, I love the book, but I love this adaptation,too!!!

I go to the gymnasium, so I read it every year, with all the tex analysis and all the characters' nature. The only thing I'm disapponted for in the movie is that there are a lot of mistakes:
1) Menelaus wasn't a fat, old asshole: he was a handsome man, who had been chosen by Helena as husband years before; it's perfectly normal that Helena, Zeus' daughter and for this reason semi-divine, had all the rights to fall in love with another man and go with him. She is a goddess and gods can do whatever they want.
2) Briseis wasn't the priestess of Apollo and neither Hector and Paris' cousin: she was only a slave, captured by Achilles in Greece years before and brought to Troy with him. Criseis, the first lover of Agamemnon, was the daughter of the priest of Apollo.
3) Patroclus wasn't Achilles cousin and he was older than Achilles: they were friends and in Greece this meant that they were lovers too.
4) Helena didn't escape with Andromaca and Aeneas: she came back to Sparta with her husband Menelaus and lived in peace with him for the rest of her life. She betrayed Trojans opening Troy's doors to Greeks and let them burn the city; as a goddess, it's also normal that she could change her mind about Paris and starting hating him for his weakness and his cowardice: she wanted her handsome and brave Menelaus back.
Andromaca became the wife of one of Hector's brothers and her son, Astyanax (even called Scamander by his father Hector) was killed by Greeks.
5) The only prophetess in Priam's family was his daughter, Cassandra: she was captured by Agamemnon and became his slave. She had to follow him back to his home and there she was killed with him by his wife, the sister of Helena, Clytemnestra.