Trojan War

Proper noun

the Trojan War

1. (Greek) A mythological war and siege as described in Homer's Iliad.
   • For the greater part of three thousand years since the date of the Trojan War, the imagination of poets and dramatists has been busy with its story.1952, Olivia E. Coolidge, The Trojan War, Houghton Mifflin, published 1980, page ix
   • The poems of the Epic Cycle are now lost. But what we know about them from ancient evidence is extremely important for our understanding about myth of the Trojan War. The poems of the Epic Cycle share the same mythological tradition with the famous Homeric poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, and in...2001, Jonathan S. Burgess, “The Tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the Epic Cycle”, in Paperback, Johns Hopkins University Press, published 2004, page 1