Fatherhood (redirected from paternity)

Fatherhood

Abraham

progenitor of a host of nations. [O.T.: Genesis 17:3–6]

Adam

first man and progenitor of humanity. [O.T.: Genesis 5:1–5]

Dag(h)da

great god of Celts; father of Danu. [Celtic Myth.: Parrinder, 68; Jobes, 405]

Dombey, Mr.

embittered by the death of his young son, neglects his daughter. [Br. Lit.: Dombey and Son]

Goriot, Père

deprives himself of his wealth in order to ensure good marriages for his two daughters. [Fr. Lit.: Balzac Pere Goriot in Magill I, 271]

Liliom

dead for sixteen years, he is allowed to return from Heaven for a day, and attempts to please the daughter he had never seen. [Hung. Drama: Molnar Liliom in Magill I, 511]

Priam, King of Troy

fathered fifty children, among them Hector, Paris, Troilus, and Cassandra. [Gk. Lit.: Iliad]

Tevye

pious dairyman concerned with marrying off his seven beautiful daughters. [Yid. Lit.: Tevye’s Daughters; Am. Musical: Fiddler on the Roof in On Stage, 468]

Vatea

the first man; the father of mankind. [Polynesian Legend: How the People Sang the Mountains Up, 85]

Zeus (Jupiter, Jove)

“Father of the gods and men”; had many legitimate and illegitimate children. [Gk. and Rom. Myth.: Benét, 1115; Bulfinch, Ch. I]