Stentor
Stentor ( Greek Στέντωρ ) is a figure in Greek mythology . It is mentioned once in the Iliad , during the battle between the Greeks and Trojans in front of the city, in which the gods also intervene on both sides. Hera appears in front of the Greeks in the form of the Stentor and calls them to fight with a loud voice.
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ἔνθα στᾶσ 'ἤϋσε θεὰ λευκώλενος Ἥρη |
Then stepped up and shouted the goddess, the white-armed Here, like |
reception
Stentor's name has been used literally for people with a loud voice ("Stentor's voice ") since ancient times (as early as Aristotle ).
Edward Albee , in his play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? mock the squeaky Martha when a stentor voice is spoken.
Paul-Otto Schmidt describes his hardships at the Locarno conference of translating Stresemann's speeches to the hard-of-hearing Belgian foreign minister, referring to Stentor: "As a sign that I should speak louder, he put his hand to his ear and sometimes induced me to do so to the pleasure of the rest of the delegation, yelling at him with a stentor voice and yelling the most delicate diplomatic phrases into his microphone-equipped ear with the strength of a large loudspeaker. "
A US warship, the USS Stentor, and a communications satellite, Stentor ( COSPAR 2002-F03), which took off on December 11, 2002 with an Ariane 5 , are also named after the Greek hero .
literature
- Hans Lamer : Stentor . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 4, Leipzig 1915, column 1424 f. ( Digitized version ).