Stentor

A herald of the Greeks at Troy, whose voice was as loud as that of fifty other men together.

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His name has become proverbial for any one who screams or shouts with an unusually loud voice.

References

Sources

  • Homer. Iliad v, 783.
  • Juvenal. Satires, xiii, 112.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.