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…
Por Marco Claudio · 8 min read