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Definition of Trojan war
1. Noun. (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. "The story of the Trojan War is told in Homer's Iliad"
Definition of Trojan war
1. Proper noun. (context: classical mythology) Decade long war waged by Sparta, under king Agamemnon, against the Trojans, to avenge the abduction of Helen, wife of king Menelaus, by Paris, son of Trojan king Priam; ended in the destruction of Troy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
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Literary usage of Trojan war
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1858)
"But must event« which arc reckoned from the trojan war, be reckoned from the
beginning or from the end of the war ? The trojan war seems to have been the ..."
2. History: Fiction of Science? by Anatoly Fomenko (2005)
"The trojan war. The demise of Achilles follows shortly afterwards as a consequence of
... The trojan war. King Thoas. We see that some of the tales about ..."
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