Trojan War

n : (Greek mythology) a great war fought between Greece and

Troy; the Greeks sailed to Troy to recover Helen of Troy,

the beautiful wife of the Greek King 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" [syn: {Trojan War}]