There are many differences between the epic, the Iliad and the movie, Troy. One of the differences between the Iliad and Troy was that in the Iliad there was a lot more evidence of gods and other supernatural things. For example, in the Iliad the gods interfere and stop Achilles from killing Agamemnon but in Troy he is stopped by the slave girl. The reason they do this is to make it more realistic and believable. They used most of the same characters. One example of where they changed the characters was in the movie they combined the slave girl and daughter of the priest. I think it was to make everything easier to understand. Some of the similarities were that both the epic and the movie depicted Achilles personality the same, angry. They both have similar fighting scenes and reasons for fighting. Troy has aspects of the original epic of a war over a girl.
