The Highest-Paid Athlete in Western History was a Roman Charioteer...

If you think that modern athletes make a lot of money, they've got nothing on the ancients. Peter Struck, a classics professor at the University of Pennsylvania, states that a particular Roman chariot driver far exceede...

http://www.neatorama.com/2010/09/02/the-highest-paid-athlete-in-western-history-was-a-roman-charioteer/