The Golden Rooster transports readers to 6th century Constantinople, where lowly clerk Theodorus faces ruin when Emperor Justinian demands every bureaucrat provide a champion fighting cock. When his bookish son Constantine vows to transform their scrawny household rooster into an imperial contender, the family embarks on a desperate gamble that will test their ingenuity, faith, and the very limits of Byzantine justice.
The Golden Rooster transports readers to 6th century Constantinople, where lowly clerk Theodorus faces ruin when Emperor Justinian demands every bureaucrat provide a champion fighting cock. When his bookish son Constantine vows to transform their scrawny household rooster into an imperial contender, the family embarks on a desperate gamble that will test their ingenuity, faith, and the very limits of Byzantine justice.