155 centimeters is about 5 ft. 1 in. Correct? Well, as a twenty-one-year-old who is a quarter of an inch below 5 feet (about 150 centimeters), I can tell you that there are some very short adults, and since I wasn't my full height till I was fifteen, I was even shorter when I was thirteen. :)
Gen is actually about fifteen in TT, because we know he was ten when Helen became queen (according to the short story, Thief!) and on page 270 of TT it says in regards to Helen...
In her five-year reign she'd won the loyalty and love of her subjects.
So, that makes Gen about fifteen at the very end of TT, which would make sense that he was bothered by his small size, because boys usually hit their growth spurt at fourteen or fifteen. Irene observes in the boat scene during QoA that Gen was taller since the last time she'd seen him, and QoA covers about two years.
He'd grown, she realized. Boys did often grow in one last leap just as they became men... - QoA p-235
Therefore, Gen simply hit his growth spurt late, at about seventeen. My brother wasn't fully grown till he was twenty-one, and it's more common for boys to grow even after they're adults.
We also have to remember that the QT characters aren't exactly Caucasian. They're Greek or Roman, so the average height rules in regards to Caucasians don't apply. For example, Asian's and Hispanic's average height can differ by about as much as 6 inches or 16 centimeters from Caucasians. And having the experience of working on a reservation last year, some Native American boys in their late teens I worked with were my height or just a bit taller.
Google tells me that average height for Ancient Greek men was 5 ft. 6 in. so if Pol was average height, and Gen was several inches shorter, that would make him about 5 ft. 2 in. which is quite short for a fifteen-year-old boy. He does grow in QoA, but he's still shorter than Irene in KoA.
The queen was several inches taller than Eugenides, and he leaned back to counter her spin. KoA p-101
So, if Gen grew a few inches in QoA, and was say... now 5 ft. 5 in. and if the magus is tall and Irene is even taller, that would make her about 5 ft. 9 in. and the magus about 5 ft. 8 in. Give or take...
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Date: 5/22/13 07:08 pm (UTC)Gen is actually about fifteen in TT, because we know he was ten when Helen became queen (according to the short story, Thief!) and on page 270 of TT it says in regards to Helen...
In her five-year reign she'd won the loyalty and love of her subjects.
So, that makes Gen about fifteen at the very end of TT, which would make sense that he was bothered by his small size, because boys usually hit their growth spurt at fourteen or fifteen. Irene observes in the boat scene during QoA that Gen was taller since the last time she'd seen him, and QoA covers about two years.
He'd grown, she realized. Boys did often grow in one last leap just as they became men... - QoA p-235
Therefore, Gen simply hit his growth spurt late, at about seventeen. My brother wasn't fully grown till he was twenty-one, and it's more common for boys to grow even after they're adults.
We also have to remember that the QT characters aren't exactly Caucasian. They're Greek or Roman, so the average height rules in regards to Caucasians don't apply. For example, Asian's and Hispanic's average height can differ by about as much as 6 inches or 16 centimeters from Caucasians. And having the experience of working on a reservation last year, some Native American boys in their late teens I worked with were my height or just a bit taller.
Google tells me that average height for Ancient Greek men was 5 ft. 6 in. so if Pol was average height, and Gen was several inches shorter, that would make him about 5 ft. 2 in. which is quite short for a fifteen-year-old boy. He does grow in QoA, but he's still shorter than Irene in KoA.
The queen was several inches taller than Eugenides, and he leaned back to counter her spin. KoA p-101
So, if Gen grew a few inches in QoA, and was say... now 5 ft. 5 in. and if the magus is tall and Irene is even taller, that would make her about 5 ft. 9 in. and the magus about 5 ft. 8 in. Give or take...
I like talking about this way too much... XD
(Edited to fix typos.)