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 ...

Born in approximately 104 AD, Diocles was born in Lamecum - the capital of Lusitania which was a province of Emerita Augusta (modern-day Portugal). He began racing at a tender age of 18 in Ilerda ...

Roman chariot racer Gaius Appuleius Diocles earned astonishing sum during a 24-year career, winning 1,462 events THE money on display in all of sport these days is borderline shocking ...

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 ...

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.

Scientists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln recently fired up its ultra-high intensity Diocles laser that is brighter than anything seen in the history of planet Earth. The Diocles laser will ...

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 ...