Stentorian

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Στένω (steno) is an Ancient Greek verb meaning 'to groan' or 'to mourn loudly'. In Homer’s Iliad, the goddess Hera possesses the body of a herald to empower the soldiers when they were losing a battle. The herald she chose, had a fantastically loud and clear voice. They said, he sounded not like one but fifty men and later, when he was challenged by Hermes to a shouting battle and won , Hermes killed him. His name became an adjective and came to English through a translation from Latin in the 1600s. And the name was ΣΤΕΝΤΩΡ/STENTORIAN

I’d like to dedicate this episode to every loud voice against oppression, violence and war in our world today.

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