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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).

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The sun was not named after a person.

yes of cause it was named after the god of the sun

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In Greek he was called Helios, in Rome he became known as Sol or Sol Invictus.

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Venus was a Roman goddess. Her Greek equivalent was Aphrodite.

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