English noun: Trojan War | |||
1. | Trojan War (act) (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 | ||
Samples | The story of the Trojan War is told in Homer's Iliad. | ||
Instance hypernym | war, warfare | ||
Domain category | Greek mythology | ||