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The Unowned Wreath: A poor athlete can win the race. But can he stop a ruler from claiming the victory?

The Unowned Wreath: A poor athlete can win the race. But can he stop a ruler from claiming the victory?

Grossy, Manuel

Paperback

Series: The Sacred Machine Trilogy

Fiction Anthologies

ISBN13: 9798188186975
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 20 2026
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.96 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Ancient Greece.

Theron, the son of a struggling potter, enters a funeral race with no trainer, no patron, and little food in his stomach. His unexpected victory attracts the attention of Leontes, the ruler of Thalasson, who offers him everything his family desperately needs: training, protection, grain, and the chance to compete at Olympia.

But every gift carries an invisible price.

As Theron is transformed into a symbol of civic greatness, his sister Myrine begins uncovering altered grain records, manipulated oaths, political coercion, and sacred declarations shaped to serve the ruler's ambitions. Meanwhile, Phaon, an enslaved man whose testimony could expose the machinery behind the triumph, risks everything to preserve evidence that powerful men want erased.

At Olympia, Theron must decide whether victory belongs to the athlete who earned it, the city that celebrates it, the ruler who financed it-or the god whose name has been placed upon it.

The Unowned Wreath is a historically grounded novel of athletic glory, political propaganda, faith, class, slavery, and the difficult courage required to question authority without surrendering everything that gives life meaning.

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