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| beleaguer |
to lay siege to by surrounding with troops; besiege. [1/2 definitions] |
| besiege |
to surround with enemy forces; lay siege to. [1/2 definitions] |
| siege |
a military act of surrounding a city or base, attacking it, and cutting off supplies. The goal of a siege is to force the city or fort to surrender. |
| The Iliad |
an ancient Greek epic poem attributed to Homer that narrates the ten-year siege of Troy by the Greeks. |
| Trojan War |
in Greek mythology and The Iliad, the ten-year siege of Troy by the Greeks, caused by the abduction of Helen, the wife of a Greek king, by Paris, a Trojan prince. |
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