Stentor

For other uses, seeStentor (disambiguation).

Not to be confused withStenter.

InGreek mythology,Stentor(Ancient Greek:Στέντωρ;gen.: Στέντορος) was aheraldof the Greek forces during theTrojan War.

Mythology

Stentor is mentioned briefly inHomer'sIliadin whichHera,in the guise of Stentor, whose "voice was as powerful as fifty voices of other men",encourages the Greeks to fight.

Elsewhere, Stentor is said to have died after losing a shouting contest withHermes.

Stentor's story is the origin of the term "stentorian",meaning loud-voiced, for which he was famous.Aristotleuses the concept in hisPoliticsBook 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

• List of Trojan War characters

Bibliography

• Homer,Iliadwith an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, 1924.ISBN978-0674995796.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer,Homeri Operain five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920.ISBN978-0198145318.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.