Gaius Appuleius Diocles, a man from the area of what is now Spain and Portugal, is the highest paid athlete the world has ...

It might have gone a little like ... this: Gaius Appuleius Diocles knew his job. He didn’t need to win; he just had to survive. Seven laps. Twelve competitors. That was it. Whatever happened ...

We’re talking about Gaius Appuleius Diocles, the most famous charioteer of Antiquity, a Spaniard who stirred genuine passion among racing enthusiasts. And all this without the need for television ...

We could give you 12 billion guesses and we guarantee you still wouldn't name this chap; Roman chariot racer Gaius Appuleius Diocles. Starting out his sporting career aged 18, Diocles went on to ...

One charioteer, named Gaius Appuleius Diocles, amassed a fortune 35,863,120 sesterces in prize money – the equivalent of $15 billion (£9.6 billion), claims Peter Struck, a professor of ...

Gaius Appuleius Diocles was such a successful racer at the Circus Maximus in Rome that he earned the modern equivalent of $AU19 billion in his career, far more than ...

Some say the highest-paid athlete of all time is a man by the name of Gaius Appuleius Diocles, a chariot racer in Rome who evidently made quite the bank back in his day, roughly 2,000 years ago.