trojan war

Noun
  1. (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 (synset 101311886)
    "the story of the Trojan War is told in Homer's Iliad"
    referred to in: greek mythology - the mythology of the ancient Greeks
    is an instance of: war, warfare - the waging of armed conflict against an enemy

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