Saturn was named after the Roman God, Saturn. Saturn is the Romanequivalent of the Greek God, Cronus, the king of the titans (before the Olympians) and father of the Olympians that ate his babies son they wouldn't kill him like he killed his father, Uranus (which is also the only planet named for a Greek God).
The sun was not named after a person.
yes of cause it was named after the god of the sun
In Greek he was called Helios, in Rome he became known as Sol or Sol Invictus.
Venus was a Roman goddess. Her Greek equivalent was Aphrodite.
Helios
The Greek god of messages is Mercury. Mercury had winged shoes so that he could deliver messages quickly. The planet was named after him because it takes the shortest amount of time to travel around the sun, only 88 earth days. Mercury is a Roman god. The Greek god that he was modeled after was Hermes.
Many civilizations were aware of five wandering points of light in the night sky, which were later named for gods of the Roman mythology-Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. These planets were easily observed with the unaided eye.
March got its name from Mars, the Roman god of war. This was because Mars is red in color and the ancient Romans thought it was made of blood spilled in battles and was related to Mars, their God of war. They considered the month of March to be devoted to Mars (god)
Roman god of war
Yes, I do
the sun is named after walterzoiz the roman god
gurijjfodfjje
Mars is the planet that was named after the Roman God of War. It is the fourth planet from the sun, and is red in color.
Mars.Mars
The god of love is Eros. The goddess of love is Venus.
It is actually the other way around: the planets were named after the Roman gods. In this case Mars, the god of war.
The planet Neptune was named for the Roman god of water and the seas.In the original Greek language, from whence this Roman god was taken, his name was Poisedon.
The name Saturn means "most remote planet" because at the time it was named, it was the furthest planet from the sun. The planet was named after the Roman god of agriculture, Saturn.
The planets of the solar system are named after Roman and Greek gods. Mercury: messenger of the gods (Hermes in Greece) Venus: goddess of love and beauty (Aphrodite in Greece) Mars: god of war (Ares in Greece) Jupiter: god of the gods (Zeus in Greece) Saturn: god of agriculture (Cronos/Cronus/Kronos in Greece: one of the Titans and god of time in the Greek mythology) Uranus: represents the sky in Greek mythology Neptune: god of the sea (Poseidon in Greece)
Saturn was named after the Roman god of agriculture. In Roman mythology Saturn was the father of Jupiter. Saturn is also named after the Roman god of time because it was the slowest planet that the Romans saw that orbited the sun, and god of time was very slow. -Kareena Kapoor wrote this... The god of time is Kronos by the way
the planet mercury was named after the roman god mercury because it's the planet that rotates the sun the fastest than any other planet. they named it mercury because the roman god mercury was really fast because he sent messages for other gods.
The Romans knew of seven bright objects in the sky, the sun, the moon and five brightest planets. They named them after their most important gods. Saturn was named after the Roman god of agriculture. According to myth, Saturn introduced agriculture to his people by teaching them how to farm the land. Saturn was also the Roman god of time and this is perhaps why the slowest (in orbit around the sun) of the five bright planets was named after him. In Roman mythology Saturn was the father of Jupiter. Saturday is also named after the Roman god Saturn (Saturn's Day).