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 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)
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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.
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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.
Poseidon's Roman name is Neptune. So the 8th planet from the sun is named after Poseidon.
There is no planet named after the Greek god Zeus. However, Zeus's roman form is Jupiter, the fifth planet from the sun.
There is a Greek and a Roman god named Apollo. There is no planet named after Apollo, unless you know of the Apollo planet that no one knows about yet.
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