trojan war meaning and definition

TROJAN WAR noun

Definition of 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
   • "the story of the Trojan War is told in Homer's Iliad"