trojan_war.n.01

'trojan_war.n.01'

[trojan_war.n.01] as in: (Greek mythology) a great war fought between Greece and Troy; the Greeks sailed to Troy to recover Helen of Troy, the beautiful wife of Menelaus who had been abducted by Paris; after ten years the Greeks (via the Trojan Horse) achieved final victory and burned Troy to the ground

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the story of the Trojan War is told in Homer's Iliad