Definition of trojan war
(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"