In contrast to "Troy" (which was roughly based on the "Iliad" which itself only depicts some of the events of the final year of the war), the film tells much of the story of the War. Most notably, "Helen of Troy" features and discusses the intervention of the deities (the film's opening scene shows Hera, Athena and Aphrodite at the Judgment of Paris) as written by Homer. This does not mean, however, that it is more accurate, as a number of the characters (namely Paris, as stated above), do not resemble their Homeric counterparts. Both films feature the interpretation of Agamemnon as a domination-hungry tyrant, although this "Helen of Troy" adds a new dimension by addressing Agamemnon's sacrifice of his daughter Iphigenia to the deities.