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Trojan War en · PROPN

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Meanings

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 Greeks and Romans believed that the Trojan War was both a real event and a pivotal point in world history; Herodotus and Thucydides discussed the Trojan War briefly in the opening pages of their respective books, written in the fifth century BCE. 2013, Eric H. Cline, The Trojan War: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, page 1:
   • 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 fact the Epic Cycle is even more representative of the Trojan War tradition than the Homeric poems. 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:

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Relateds

Trojan horse · Late Bronze Age collapse

Translations (78)

qu Truyanu maqanakuy (mythological war) · zza Cengê Troya (mythological war) · ka ტროის ომი (mythological war) · hu trójai háború (mythological war) · cmn 特洛伊戰爭 /特洛伊战争 (mythological war) · oc guèrra de Tròia (mythological war) · ba Троя һуғышы (mythological war) · it guerra di Troia (mythological war) · cy Rhyfel Caerdroea (mythological war) · ga Cogadh na Traoi (mythological war) · pa ਟਰਾਏ ਦੀ ਜੰਗ (mythological war) · tr Truva savaşı (mythological war) · da trojanske krig (mythological war) · no den trojanske krig (mythological war) · ia guerra de Troia (mythological war) · mt gwerra ta’ Trojja (mythological war) · sk trójska vojna (mythological war) · sh tròjānskī rȁt (mythological war) · ast guerra de Troya (mythological war) · tl Digmaang Troya (mythological war) · ml ട്രോജൻ യുദ്ധം (mythological war) · et Trooja sõda (mythological war) · uz Troya urushi (mythological war) · el Τρωικός πόλεμος (mythological war) · sq Lufta e Trojës (mythological war) · sk trojánska vojna (mythological war) · eo Troja milito (mythological war) · ky Троя согушу (mythological war) · yi טרויאַנישער קריג (mythological war) · af Trojaanse oorlog (mythological war) · scn guerra di Troia (mythological war) · la bellum Troianum (mythological war) · war Gera ha Troya (mythological war) · pt guerra de Troia (mythological war) · ca guerra de Troia (mythological war) · bn ট্রোজান যুদ্ধ (mythological war) · az Troya müharibəsi (mythological war) · br Brezel Troia (mythological war) · ta திராயன் போர் (mythological war) · de Trojanischer Krieg (mythological war) · sl trojanska vojna (mythological war) · hi ट्रॉय का युद्ध (mythological war) · be Траянская вайна (mythological war) · es guerra de Troya (mythological war) · sv trojanska kriget (mythological war) · vec guera de Troia (mythological war) · io Milito di Troya (mythological war) · no trojanerkrigen (mythological war) · ko 트로이아 전쟁 (mythological war) · fur vuere di Troie (mythological war) · an guerra de Troya (mythological war) · ms Perang Troy (mythological war) · nl Trojaanse oorlog (mythological war) · th สงครามกรุงทรอย (mythological war) · vls Trojoansen orloge (mythological war) · gl guerra de Troia (mythological war) · ja トロイア戦争 (mythological war) · fi Troijan sota (mythological war) · ru Троя́нская война́ (mythological war) · pl wojna trojańska (mythological war) · sh тро̀ја̄нскӣ ра̏т (mythological war) · mk Тројанска војна (mythological war) · bg Троянска война (mythological war) · lt Trojos karas (mythological war) · si ට්රෝජන් යුද්ධය (mythological war) · lv Trojas karš (mythological war) · is Trójustríðið (mythological war) · uk Троянська війна (mythological war) · hy Տրոյական պատերազմ (mythological war) · fy Trojaanske Oarloch (mythological war) · ro războiul troian (mythological war) · cs trojská válka (mythological war) · kk Троя соғысы (mythological war) · id Perang Troya (mythological war) · pcd dgère ed Troée (mythological war) · eu Troiako gerra (mythological war) · jam Chuojan Waar (mythological war) · fr guerre de Troie (mythological war)