Trojan War
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- proper noun
- /ˈtroʊdʒən wɔr/
- Literature
- They fought in the legendary Trojan War, and their grand army invaded Athens.
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Watch on YouTubeAnd we know that Agamemnon was killed when he got back from the Trojan War.
- And we know that Agamemnon was killed when he got back from the Trojan War.
- And this is actually populated by people taken from ancient Greece around the time of the Trojan War.
- And then I realized it was the travails of Odysseus trying to get back to Ithaca after the Trojan War.
- Interestingly though, this is a scene which isn't described in the literary texts about the myth of the Trojan War.
- It doesn't have to be about the Trojan War, you know, doesn't have to be the Iliad.
- I tend to go for the classics, so I keep you reading The Iliad by Homer with the Trojan War.
Examples
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Odysseus never returned home from the Trojan War.
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When Odysseus went off to fight in the Trojan War, he entrusted his son Telemachus to the care of his friend and adviser, whose name was Mentor.
Academic text (2000) -
Can someone tell me how the Trojan War began?
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And that's how the Trojan War began.
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Tomorrow, I want papers from all of you on The Pride of Agamemnon and the role it played in extending the Trojan War.
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I've been drawn into Homer's world of the Trojan War since my undergraduate days.
Blog text (17) -
He names the love goddess winner and soon goes to Sparta to claim his prize, thus setting the Trojan War in motion.
Academic text (2012) -
The Cretans contributed "80 black ships" to the Trojan War—one of the largest contingents—as noted in the Iliad.
Academic text (2010) -
In the Odyssey, part two of Homer's epic saga about the Trojan War and its aftermath, Odysseus, the conquering warrior-hero, experiences more than a few delays as he tries to get back home following the war.
Blog text (18) -
The Iliad details the events and heroes of the Trojan War as told by Homer.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the war involving Troy/the Trojans' is directly and compositionally derivable from 'Trojan' (related to Troy) + 'war' (armed conflict). Although it names a specific mytho-historical event, the pattern of naming wars after participants/places is common cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would understand its meaning.
Etymology
Trojan War comes from an ancient Greek story about a long, ten-year fight between the Greeks and the people of Troy after Prince Paris took Helen. The Greeks finally won by hiding soldiers inside a large wooden 'Trojan Horse', so Trojan War now means that famous, long war and is remembered for that clever trick.