Pantacles
Παντακλῆς
(Παντακλῆς), an Athenian, immortalized by Aristophanes as a pre-eminently stupid man, who, preparing to conduct a procession, put on his helmet before he fixed the crest to it. He was ridiculed also for his stupidity by Eupolis in the χρυσοῦν γένος. (Arist. Ran. 1034; Schol. ad loe.; comp. Meineke, Fragm. Com. Graec. vol. i. p. 145, ii. p. 544.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.