English-Spanish translations for trojan war

• guerra de Troya
  El 1 de enero de 2002 emprenderé, como hizo Ulises cuando terminó la guerra de Troya, un largo viaje por los meandros de la burocracia de las 13.523 oficinas de la Comisión y de sus 33.728 empleados. On 1 January 2002 I shall set off on a long journey, like Odysseus when the Trojan War ended, through the maze of bureaucracy in the 13 523 offices of the Commission and its 33 728 staff.
  Espero que se pida a Turquía que obligue a sus habitantes a renunciar a su pésima costumbre de secuestrar a las bonitas mujeres griegas, una cosa que hacen desde los tiempos de la guerra de Troya. I hope Turkey will be asked to commit its citizens to abandoning their dreadful custom of abducting the most beautiful Greek women, something they have been doing since the days of the Trojan War.

Definition of trojan war

• A mythological decade-long war and siege, ending in the destruction of Troy, which, as described in Homer's ''Iliad'', was waged by a coalition of Achaeans led by King Agamemnon against the Trojans to avenge the abduction of Helen, wife of the Spartan King Menelaus, by Paris, son of the Trojan King Priam

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