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(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
How To Use Trojan War In A Sentence
- An ancient port of east-central Greece in Boeotia. According to tradition, it was the embarkation point for the Greek fleet during the Trojan War.
- But speaking of plays about the Trojan War, I think I'd like to see Tiger at the Gates done in repertory Troilus and Cressida, a compare and contrast between irony and out and out cynicism. Lance Mannion:
- According to legend, the Trojan War had its genesis in a dispute between three Greek goddesses.
- During the Iron Age, it was known as Salamis, and its kings traced their ancestry to the Teucer, brother of Ajax, a hero of the Trojan War. FrontPage Magazine
- Helen is blamed for causing the Trojan War because the Greeks and Trojans were fighting over her.
- Sadly, "dyte" in this context is merely an abbreviated form of the name Dictys Cretensis, a lesser reteller of the Trojan War. Languagehat.com: DIGHT.
- Whatever historical events underlie the legend of the Trojan War did not occur as depicted here.
- AEneas; these ideas, I say, and these sentiments, appertained to the polished century of Augustus and not to the epoch or, scene of the Trojan War. Satyricon
- The Odyssey describes the return of the Greek hero Odysseus from the Trojan War.
- I love "Leda and the Swan" as a teaching poem; it's devastating, especially the implication that the violence of the rape prefigures and almost predestines the violence of the Trojan War. Archive 2007-01-01
