ὁ Διὸς … Ἀλκμήνας κόρος: objection has been taken to the double gen., but needlessly: the second gen. practically forms a single notion with “κόρος”,—‘Zeus's Alcmena-son,’=the son of Zeus by Alcmena. To a Greek ear the effect would be nearly the same as when the first gen. is replaced by an adj.; e.g., Aesch. Suppl.313“ὁ Δῖος πόρτις...βοός”, Pind. O.2. 13“<*> Κρόνιε παῖ Ῥέας”.
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Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments, with critical notes, commentary, and translation in English prose. Part V: The Trachiniae. Sir Richard C. Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1902.
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