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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"

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Trojan War

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Troisier Troisier's ganglion Troisier's node trojan Trojan Horse Trojan War (current term) troke troked trokes troking

trolamine troland troland trolands Trolard Trolard's vein troleandomycin troll troll trolled

Literary usage of Trojan War

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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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