[Verginius Rufus]

Homer doesn't mention the story of Achilles' heel--Achilles is still alive at the end of the Iliad (but one of the ghosts in Hades that Odysseus talks to during his visit to the underworld in the Odyssey). The phrase about the face that launched a thousand ships comes from Marlowe.

Carl Blegen, after spending several years in the 1930s excavating at Troy, discovered a Bronze Age palace at Pylos in 1939 which he identified as Nestor's palace (although nothing with Nestor's name turned up). There's a building on the University of Cincinnati campus named for Carl Blegen.

[SunkenCiv]

For that matter, the Horse isn’t in the Iliad.