Trojan Definition–adjective | 1. | of or pertaining to ancient Troy or its inhabitants. |
–noun | 2. | a native or inhabitant of Troy. |
| 3. | a person who shows pluck, determination, or energy: to work like a Trojan. |
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legendary conflict between the early Greeks and the people of Troy in western Anatolia, dated by later Greek authors to the 12th or 13th century BC. (See Troy.) The war stirred the imagination of the ...
Trojan planets
two groups of asteroids named for heroes of Greece and Troy in Homer's Iliad. These minor planets revolve around the Sun in the Lagrangian points of Jupiter's orbit. These are positions where a ...
Trojan horse
huge, hollow wooden horse constructed by the Greeks to gain entrance into Troy during the Trojan War. The horse was built by Epeius, master carpenter and pugilist. The Greeks, pretending to desert ...
Euripides
The setting of Trojan Women (415 BC; Greek Troades) is the time immediately after the taking of Troy, and the play treats the sufferings of the wives and children of the city's defeated leaders, in ...
asteroid
In 1772 the French mathematician and astronomer Joseph-Louis Lagrange predicted the existence and location of two groups of small bodies located near a pair of gravitationally stable points along ...
Troy
The Classical legends of the Trojan War developed continuously throughout Greek and Latin literature. In Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, the earliest literary evidence available, the chief stories have ...
Iliad
epic poem on the Trojan War traditionally attributed to the ancient Greek poet Homer.Corineus
legendary eponymous hero of Cornwall. According to Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae (1135-39), he was a Trojan warrior who accompanied Brutus the Trojan, the legendary founder of ...
Dictys
author of a pseudo-chronicle of the Trojan War. Dictys was supposed to have accompanied the Cretan leader Idomeneus from Knossos to the siege of Troy and to have written a pro-Greek account of the ...
Dares
Trojan priest of Hephaestus who appears as one of the characters in Homer's Iliad, Book V, and is the reputed author of a lost pre-Homeric "eyewitness" account of the Trojan War. The Daretis Phrygii ...
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