Stentor
mythological figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
brazen-voiced Stentor · some Stentor
in the texts
Orations
Herald from the Iliad famed for his loud voice, invoked as the kind of powerful corrective voice needed.
So there is no use in us nor in this slack and weak exhortation, but rather there is need of some Stentor uttering a bronze or iron voice, who will shout louder and clearer than I.
Iliad
Herald proverbial for a voice as loud as fifty men, invoked in a simile for Hera's shout.
When they came to the part where the bravest and most in number were gathered about mighty Diomedes, fighting like lions or wild boars of great strength and endurance, there Hera stood still and raised a shout like that of brazen-voiced Stentor, whose cry was as loud as that of fifty men together.