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== Mythology == 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 of Thessalonica|Eustathius]] on Homer, ''Iliad'' 607.29</ref> Stentor's story is the origin of the term "[[:wiktionary:stentorian|stentorian]]", meaning loud-voiced, for which he was famous. [[Aristotle]] uses the concept in his ''[[Politics (Aristotle)|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?"
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