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that said let's say a prayer to our dear 8 lb 6 oz newborn infant Jesus don't even know a word yet and Get Off to the Races according to the most recent ranking we can find Michael Jordan is the highest paid athlete of all time with career earnings totaling $3.7 billion adjusted for inflation of course and if you're curious the top five comprises Tiger Woods at number two followed by Cristiano Ronaldo Arnold Palmer and LeBron James in total these five Sportsmen earned around $12 billion but what if there was one athlete from ancient times who
earned more than all of them put together that is the notion put forward by a professor from the University of Pennsylvania who calculated that an illiterate Roman charioteer named Gas aulus dial won over the course of his career 35,8 163,164 the entire Roman army at the height of its power for over 2 months or to provide grain for all of Rome for a whole year in modern currency that is estimated to be in the neighborhood of $15 billion which begs the question was gas aulus dial the richest athlete of all time before we get started
on dial let's have a quick word about Chariot racing as a whole although nowadays we always picture the ancient Romans going to see Gladiator fights for a bit of weekend entertainment Chariot racing was by far the most popular public game in Rome known as Ludy these games were often held as part of religious festivals and other celebrations became an integral part of Roman society ever since the city's birth according to Legend just a few months after ramulus founded Rome he used chariot races and other games to entice the nearby sabines to attend their festivals and
enact the rape of the being women Yes you heard that right where hundreds of Maidens were kidnapped by the Romans with the intent to marry them and unite their two peoples which is just a hell of a thing to hear I'm sure Chariot racing went on to hold a place of prestige during the Kingdom Period of Rome the Roman Republic and the Glory Days of the Empire surviving the fall of the Western Roman Empire as Constantinople became the new hot bed for charioteer during this time the greatest charioteers were popular Idols in Rome similar to
to the athletes of today they earned the favor of senators and Emperors and the most successful Racers made fortunes the poet juvenile wrote how One racer named larta could make a hundred times more money than a lawyer while another named scorpus was so rich that he had gilded busts of himself erected all over the city now that is Swagger with money and Prestige also came great Fame and Chariot Racers who were called arri had some incredibly dedicated supporters plyy wrote of one grieving fan who was so devastated by the death of his favorite racer that
he threw himself on top of the funeral P so that they could burn together that's dedication others were willing to risk prison or even execution for using sorcery against opposing drivers to help out their favorites cursed tablets were found where their bearers prayed for certain arig to get tripped maimed or killed during the races in fact the drivers themselves were sometimes accused of using magic to tip the scales in their favor historian amenos mentions three instances between 364 and 372 ad where charioteers were prosecuted for magic practices in Rome one was beheaded the second was
burned at the stake and the third was acquitted which is just silly everyone knows the right way to test for a witch is to see if she floats like wood because witches are made of wood a witch a wit Racers were divided into four teams the Reds the whites the blues and the greens well demission tried adding two more but the idea was dropped once he died as you might expect each driver wore a uniform in the color of his team much like Starfleet officers there were no jumbotrons back in ancient Rome so people needed
a way to tell them apart each team was associated with certain neighborhoods even certain classes at various points throughout history and rivalry is developed between them in the same way that it happens with football teams in modern times times and just like today's Hooligans Roman fans sometimes took things way too far riots breaking out over the races was not unheard of worst of all were probably the na riots in 532 ad in Constantinople they lasted for a week killed tens of thousands of people and left almost half the city in Ruins In other words the
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life probably doesn't offer you too many Pleasures but none of that matters at the moment because today is race day racing stadiums existed throughout the Empire but if you lived in Rome you got to see the grandest one of all the circus Maximus which had existed in the city in one form or another ever since the beginning of the Roman Kingdom it was said that after being renovated by Julius Caesar the circus Maximus could hold up to 150,000 people still if you wanted to get a good seat your best chances were to camp out the
night before unless you were Rich of course the senatorial class had exclusive access to the best seats in the House which were also shaded so they didn't have to sit in the sun all day like the rest of the Rabel after them came the equestrian order Rome's second class and they too had reserved seating just not as good as the Senators the only other group of people who had their own special seats at the games were the Vestal virgins but alas you are neither Senator nor virgin we're assuming so you have to settle for whatever
seat you can find ideally you'd want one in a group of people who support the same team you do this drastically decreases the chances of getting stabbed during or after the race that's important but you're not worried about that today because you get to see one of the greatest drivers in history gas aulus dial born in the Roman province of Lucitania in 104 ad gas aulus dial began his racing career at age 18 driving for the white team he wasn't some kind of Prodigy though and in fact it took him two years before he gained
his first Victory just like modern athletes arig gay could become free agents and change teams after 6 years of racing with the whites dial switched to the greens just like modern athletes arig could become free agents and change teams much like Ricky Bobby after 6 years of racing with the whites di switched to the greens however he only spent three years there before announcing that he was taking his talents to the red team where he spent the next 15 years of his life before retiring at the age of 42 during his career dial took part
in 4,257 races and won 1,462 of them on average that's about 75 races per year and if that sounds like a lot just remember that some Emperors sponsored over 20 races per day to keep the population happy and distracted from all the shenanigans they were doing behind the curtain or as juvenile perfectly put it give them bread and circuses and they will never Revolt his longevity alone is a trait that puts diales a step above his competitors make no mistake about it Chariot racing was an incredibly dangerous sport mostly on purpose although the Romans were
inspired by the Greeks they decided that the Greek way just didn't fulfill your average Roman's daily quota for violence so they tweaked the rules just a tiny bit for example in the center of the oval stadiums there was a long and narrow strip called a Spina that the charioteers raced around Spina was adorned with statues columns obelisks and other accessories plus a couple of large heavy poles at each end called the metti these poles represented the most dangerous section of the track because it was where races were won and lives were lost it was a
high risk High reward situation where the drivers truly showed off their skill get the corners right and gain a significant lead get them wrong and die in a thunderous crash both outcomes were fine with a public in attendance since many of them came to the stadium in the hopes of witnessing a nafr or a shipwreck meaning a smashed Chariot the drivers their teams and their sponsors all knew this which is why crashes were not only expected but almost encouraged it wasn't unheard of for arig from the same faction to gang up on an opponent during
a race and force him into the Spina because as a great man once said if you ain't first you're last if that wasn't dangerous enough there was another difference between Greek and Roman Chariot racing the Greeks held the Reigns to the horses in their hands that way if they were going to crash they could let go and maybe have a chance of surviving if the gods were smiling upon them that day the Romans on the other hand said hold my beer and decided to tie the rains around their waists that way even if they surv
survive the crash they would still get dragged around by the horses until they became meat crayons don't Google that this is why Roman drivers carried a curved knife as part of their equipment so they could cut the rains but of course nobody would be too upset if they used it to give an opponent a little friendly poke with all of that going on it's a small miracle that dial not only made it into his 40s in a sport where many competitors died in their 20s but that he actually got to enjoy retirement everything we know
about diales comes from two commemorative inscriptions done in his honor and although they are light on the biographical details they are quite thorough when it comes to his racing accolades so here are dial stats Straight From the Source his winds drove a four-horse chariot for 24 years he started 4,257 races won 1,462 he won the first race of the day 110 times in races for single four horse chariots he won 1,64 times and in this he took the largest purse 92 times he won the 30,000 ceris prize 32 times three of them in a six-
horse Chariot the 40,000 ceras prize 28 times twice in a six- horse Chariot the 50,000 prize 28 times one in a six horse Chariot the 60,000 ceris prize three times in races for pairs of four horse chariots he won 347 times and won 15,000 four times in a three-horse chariot in races for three horse chariots he won 51 times he gained honors 1,000 times he was second 861 times third 576 fourth with 1,000 ceras once and took no prize 1351 times he won jointly with a charioteer from the blues 10 times with one from the
whites 91 and shared the 20,000 purse twice his total winnings were 35,8 163,164 th sis in a two-horse Chariot jointly with a white charioteer once and with a green twice he won while leading from the gate 850 times coming from behind giggity 67 after being past 36 in different ways 42 and at the Finishing Line 502 he won against the greens 216 times against the blues 205 and against the whites 81 times nine horses had 100 wins with him and one had 200 so was diales the richest athlete of all time well the truth is
we can't really say at least not with absolute certainty but it's very unlikely we have no idea what his social status was was he a slave or a criminal or was he a free Roman who decided to take up Chariot racing even though this was considered a taboo profession for a citizen each scenario would have impacted how much money he actually got to take home however if he truly was a celebrated orig in his own time it wouldn't be surprising if he got to negotiate higher and higher earnings for himself throughout his career as to
what happened to di after he hung up his racing boots we don't know since the inscriptions with his information were made during his lifetime and they didn't bother to update them later all we know is that in 146 ad the 42-year-old dial retired in the city of pesta a short distance from Rome we assume that he got to enjoy The Spoils of his labor while waiting for Nike to offer him a sandal sponsorship future Eric here before we end the video Don't forget to click on the description link to get the special discount cyber ghost
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