Circa 50 BC, A chariot race at the Circus Maximus, Rome.Original Artwork: A print in the collection of Manchester City Art Gallery, after a painting by Professor Alex Wagner. Original Artwork: The Boy’s Own Paper (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Soccer maestro Cristiano Ronaldo‘s 2017 pay of $93 million makes him the world’s highest-paid athlete, according to Forbes magazine. The money that comes in from salary and endorsements make NBA great LeBron James second on that list with $86.2 million, while the $80 million earned by Lionel Messi, another soccer legend, rounds out the top three. But none of these amazing athletes can compare to the earning ability of the highest-paid athlete of all times – a Roman charioteer by the name of Gaius Appuleius Diocles, who got paid $15 billion in his lifetime.
Historian Peter T. Struck says that Diocles, a Lusitanian Spaniard who lived from…
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