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Roman charioteer in a red tunic driving a four-horse quadriga at full gallop through the tight turn at the post of the Circus Maximus, a crowd in the stands behind.

THE 35-MILLION MAN: Diocles retires, the Lusitanian charioteer who earned more money than any athlete in history and lived to tell the tale

Rome, around AD 146. Gaius Appuleius Diocles hangs up the reins at 42 after 24 seasons, 4,257 starts and 1,462 victories in the Circus Maximus. His fortune— 35,863,120 sesterces—has never been matched by any sportsman. But the strangest figure on his tombstone is another one: that he is alive to…

The body of Emperor Caligula after thirty stab wounds in a vaulted passage of the Palatine, with two praetorian tribunes withdrawing and Asian children frozen in the background.

THE EMPEROR ASSASSINATED! Caligula falls under thirty stab wounds from his own guard in the Palatine corridor

Rome, 24 January AD 41. Midday. Leaving the Palatine Games, Emperor Caligula is intercepted by two praetorian tribunes in a vaulted passage. Thirty stab wounds. His wife and his one-year-old daughter, murdered that same afternoon. The Senate debates restoring the republic.