When I grow up...
Was a guy named Gaius Appuleius Diocles. He was a charioteer in the time of the Roman Empire and made the equivalent of $15,000,000,000 dollars. Yes, that’s $15 billion dollars (35,863,120 sesterces, ancient Romain coins).
I LOL’d in real life when I read that. Makes all our current athletes look like their making pennies per year.
Diocles’ s total earnings of 35,863,120 sesterces were enough to provide grain for the entire population of Rome for one year, or to fund the Roman Army at its height for more than two months.
That would have been neat, although I’m sure he did something “else” with all that moolah.
[via Discovery]
That didn’t include his Nike Contract.
Funny, but he would have had a contract with Victoria.
Wow! Love what you’ve done with the standard theme John!
Well, in Rome, their government and economics were much more mature than ours. His time was around 146 AD and Rome started falling apart around 400 AD.
So you could say, when sportsmen start making billions of dollars, that’s near the end of that civilization’s rule.
Oh, and he was illiterate, so we can say whatever. He won’t mind…