The highest-paid sportsman of all time is Guy Appuley Diocles, who lived in the II century AD in Rome. Throughout his career, he earned an amount equal to today's $ 15 billion. This fact, according to the London Daily Telegraph, established the University of Chicago professor Peter Struck.
Thus, Guy Appuley Diocles much bypassed the famous golfer Tiger Woods, who was the first modern athletes have earned $ 1 billion. This happened in the past, in 2009.
Guy Appuley Diocles a charioteer and acted in the most popular sport of ancient Rome - Chariot racing - in the biggest stadium of the then world - Racetrack "Circus Maximus", or "Big Circus".Arriving in Rome from the region of modern Portugal, he began his athletic career at the age of 18 and completed it in 42 years. During this time, for his victory, he earned 35,863,000 120 sesterces.
This amount is cut on the found during the excavation of the monument which was erected in honor of the champion Roman "drivers" of his "fans". This amount would be sufficient for the salaries of all the Roman army in those days within 2 months.
Now Tiger Woods would need $ 15 billion to finance the payment of salaries to all military personnel of modern U.S. armed forces during the same period. "Woods and other current athletes can consider themselves poor, compared with earnings of chariots in Ancient Rome", - said Peter Struck.
He also noticed that in Rome there was no deduction from advertising, either from the media.Money athletes received for participation in competitions. Chariot racing was in antiquity a very dangerous sport, competition overshadowed by frequent deaths of drivers.
However, the winners earning huge sums of prize money. They provided the organizers of games - the rich Romans, to hold official positions, and then the emperors, they sponsored a mass spectacle to gain popularity among the population, ITAR-TASS.
Thus, Guy Appuley Diocles much bypassed the famous golfer Tiger Woods, who was the first modern athletes have earned $ 1 billion. This happened in the past, in 2009.
Guy Appuley Diocles a charioteer and acted in the most popular sport of ancient Rome - Chariot racing - in the biggest stadium of the then world - Racetrack "Circus Maximus", or "Big Circus".Arriving in Rome from the region of modern Portugal, he began his athletic career at the age of 18 and completed it in 42 years. During this time, for his victory, he earned 35,863,000 120 sesterces.
This amount is cut on the found during the excavation of the monument which was erected in honor of the champion Roman "drivers" of his "fans". This amount would be sufficient for the salaries of all the Roman army in those days within 2 months.
Now Tiger Woods would need $ 15 billion to finance the payment of salaries to all military personnel of modern U.S. armed forces during the same period. "Woods and other current athletes can consider themselves poor, compared with earnings of chariots in Ancient Rome", - said Peter Struck.
He also noticed that in Rome there was no deduction from advertising, either from the media.Money athletes received for participation in competitions. Chariot racing was in antiquity a very dangerous sport, competition overshadowed by frequent deaths of drivers.
However, the winners earning huge sums of prize money. They provided the organizers of games - the rich Romans, to hold official positions, and then the emperors, they sponsored a mass spectacle to gain popularity among the population, ITAR-TASS.
"Circus Maximus could accommodate a quarter of the population of Rome, or 250 thousand people.The length of the racetrack reached 621 meters,width of 118 meters. In the races at the same time to participate in 1912 chariots. The most popular were racing a chariot drawn by four horses.
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