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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—T

Trojan War

(The). The siege of Troy by the Greeks. After a siege of ten years the city was taken and burnt to the ground. The last year of the siege is the subject of Homer's Iliad; the burning of Troy and the flight of Æneas is a continuation by Virgil in his Æneid.

The Trojan War,
by Henry of Veldig, (Waldeck), a minnesinger (twelfth century) is no translation of either Homer or Virgil, but a German adaptation of the old tale. By far the best part of this poetical romance is where Lavinia tells her tale of love to her mother.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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