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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The ten-year war waged against Troy by the Greeks, caused by the abduction of Helen by Paris and resulting in the burning and destruction of Troy.
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- proper noun Decade long war waged by
Sparta , under kingAgamemnon , against theTrojans , to avenge theabduction ofHelen , wife of king Menelaus, byParis , son of Trojan kingPriam ; ended in the destruction ofTroy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- 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
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In the Trojan War, Tuchman wrote, the leaders of Troy knew that they were making a mistake when they wheeled that horse into their besieged city, but they did it anyway.
Condition Critical 2010
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The poem told the story of Trojan War and eventually made his way to Italy where his descendants founded Rome.
no.stupid.answers 2008
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