Stentor
Template:Short description Template:Other uses Template:Distinguish Template:Use dmy dates In Greek mythology, Stentor (Ancient Greek: Στέντωρ; gen.: Στέντορος) was a herald of the Greek forces during the Trojan War.
Mythology
[edit]Stentor is mentioned briefly in Homer's Iliad in which Hera, in the guise of Stentor, whose "voice was as powerful as fifty voices of other men",<ref>Homer, Iliad 5.785-6</ref> encourages the Greeks to fight.
Elsewhere, Stentor is said to have died after losing a shouting contest with Hermes.<ref>Scholia on Iliad 5.785; Eustathius on Homer, Iliad 607.29</ref>
Stentor's story is the origin of the term "stentorian", meaning loud-voiced, for which he was famous. Aristotle uses the concept in his Politics Book 7, Chapter IV saying, "For who can be the general of such a vast multitude, or who the herald, unless he have the voice of a Stentor?"
See also
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[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- Homer, Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, 1924. Template:ISBN. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. Template:ISBN. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.