Why Planets named with Greek gods names ?

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Mars is the ROMAN god of war Not all are greek

Probably for three reasons, in this order: people worship up, they like homages, and they hesitate to break tradition.

You'll technically only find one planet named after a Greek god, though.

because they aren't?, this is a trick question, right? the planets names are from the Latin...

mars is greek god aris in latin

romans named all greek words in latin also the modern english

they are all from greek mythology not roman

What? Mars is Roman God of War big guy...

I guess I can see where you are going with that one, but Yahweh, Allah, and iahovah are all the same thing.

In reality, the planets are named after the Roman gods, not the greek. It doesn't matter where the Romans got the God concept, just that we use latin as the base for the planets, not Greek. Thus they are not named after greek gods. (Sorry to be redundant, but I think it would get lost otherwise)...



(the moon isn't a planet btw...)



No, they're not.

i want proofs.how can you say that ?The planets are named in latin but the gods are Greek dont ever saw Xena or Hercules they say Aris the god of war Look into a web page and tell me then

I hope you aren't getting all your history knowledge, from Xena and Hercules...

i bring that example to you american that your only way to learn is from Tv.try reading Plato sokratis and then tell me about history and if you want to know the ceramics(greek word) for the space shuttle come from greece.

xD "lalalalalalalalalalallalalalalalala" or whatever she does.

I think they named then after gods, because they thought it'd be a good idea I suppose, it doesn't have to have any meaning as to why they named the planets as they did.

why did your mother name you (insert your name here)? because she thought it would be a good way to pay homage to someone/thing, a unique name, or a name that she has always admired.

same could be applied to the planets.

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Also, don't go stereotyping people... its highly ignorant.

lmfao. this is insane. Xena? Are you serious?

Lets talk about Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle.

I am tremendously well versed in all three philosophers.

Bring a well thought out position to the fore and we will have a civilized debate.

Of personal interest to me are Plato's writings with "The Republic". I am especially taken with the allegory of the cave and its wider ramifications for the enlightenment and rennaisance in europe, along with modern day to day comparisons not only in education, but also in government and religion.

I eagerly await your response.

I'm sorry, that came across more arrogant than I wanted it to... I am simply fed up with the ramblings of the OP, ramblings which he is strewing about the forum as fast as he can.

I still await your response The Greek.

--Marty

Mars is the Roman God of War You have TOO much national pride...you know that?

This is very true.

Aristotelian discussions about science had only been qualitative, not quantitative.

I'm not sure if that is a response to my comments on Plato or if you are beginning a different debate...

welp... here come the bigs words, I'm off to go somewhere less... dictionary...ney.

Plus, I'm going to need you to define both of those words, as I don't think you know what either mean... Sorry, but your writing style to date has been horrible... I think you cut and pasted that last post.

In Roman mythology, Mercury was a major god of trade, profit and commerce, the son of Maia Maiestas and Jupiter.

Venus was a major Roman goddess principally associated with love and beauty.

Mars was the Roman god of war, the son of Juno and either Jupiter or a magical flower.

In Roman mythology, Jupiter held the same role as Zeus in the Greek pantheon.

Saturn was a major Roman deity of agriculture.

Neptune was worshiped by the Romans primarily as a horse god, Neptune Equester, patron of horse-racing.

Pluto is an alternate name for the Greek god Hades, but was more often used in Roman mythology in their presentation of the god of the underworld.

Roman Borrowed the greek mythology and that you can not understunt

Yes, they did borrow...but those are not greek names

venus is afrodite
jupiter is zeus
mercury is hermis
saturn is cronos
neptune is posidon

if i borrow the mythology and change the names into latin the old names arent true?

no, many of the Roman gods were taken from the Etruscans, you might know them as the Tyrrhenians... an exonym used by Greek authors to refer to a non-Greek people. it's semantics.

yeah... we... we don't really care about that.

also, you're going way off track on your own topic. we also already agree'd that the romans borrowed the greek gods of old. but then pax goes and makes us all wrong



who were you talking to? 0.o

tell me some etruscans gods.aristotelis speach had quality not quantity

lmfao.

[lmfao- an acronym used by many internet addicted people for they are too lazy to type it by itself. Lmfao are the begining letters of "laughing my f***ing ass off".

Since most of the people who use this acronym are addicted to internet and spend most of their time sitting at a desk, the meening of lmfao has changed from "laughing my f***ing ass off" to "laughing my fat ass off".

Dude, first off, lets not take this to a personal level. Trust me, you won't like it.

Second off, stop cutting and pasting things. You can barely write most of your posts and then you put things which sound like they are from a text book. Not exactly brilliant.

do it to

What?

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I doubt you'll get what's being put out there... let's look at Mercury...

In his earliest forms, he appears to have been related to the Etruscan deity Turms, In Roman mythology, Mercury was a major god of trade, profit and commerce, the son of Maia Maiestas and Jupiter. but most of his characteristics and mythology were borrowed from the Greek deity Hermes...

The Greek, I understand that you are not to familier with english - seeing your earlier posts made this assumpsion, if I am wrong I apologise. but please stop copying and pasting things you find on the internet that you think may make you sound smart, copying and pasting and then claiming it is yours is seen as plagerism and is against forum rules. (I'm guessing you are copying and pasting, as your earlier posts were not well placed, and then further on you suddenly have a nice structured paragraph.)

This thread has wandered far off topic.

Please keep posts on topic, remember this is the Space and Astronomy forum. If you want to discuss mythology (except where applicable to the original question) please do so in the appropriate forum.

Please refrain from making posts personal.

I do not know how this can be answered in detail, but I'll give you this.

The ancient peoples developed organized agriculture and primative religions to bolster their yield (plant by full moon, watch for solstice, etc.). They thought about the "wanderers", were the stars fixed to the vault of heaven, what was beneath the flat earth. They built on these ideas in every major culture East and West. They gave names of importance to these special objects.

(Aristotle decided in favor of, and then rejected the motion of the Earth. A century later, Aristarchus made his own study, and accepted the Earth circled the sun, but underestimated the distance to the stars, saying they were not far beyond the planets. The clout of the greeks held sway.)

As time proceeded, Egypt and the muslim world came and went, as did Greece, and then Rome, but Rome absorbed many greek gods. The fall of the Roman Empire gave way to the Dark Ages. What arose after that involved the humanism of the Renaissance, which actually began with tourism to ancient Greece. The Italians uncovered forgotten greek sources of classical knowledge. I think that helped kick off the Renaissance.

The gradual acceptance and improvement of scholarly pursuits, made Europe the center
of astronomy (optics, telescopes). Their naming of new stars, constellations, and later nebulas and galaxies went into the accepted maps, made by the accepted experts. During this time, a background "in greek and roman classics" was considered the norm for someone of learning.

There are odd names that people invented when mythological figures ran short- Microscopium...

But, as to the specific names of the planets, the gods surely were interested in those celestial bodies- they were "special". And who was to know different? Who wanted to take a chance? Religion did get crazy, at times, though... But, ancient astronomy goes hand in hand with survival, religion, and so forth.

As an aside, I remember this story-

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4767717.stm

Actually, it seems that the Greeks were only one in a long line of God name changing.


Mythological Origin - Sumerian - Babylonian - Phoenician - Greek - Latin - English
goddess of the earth - Ki - Aruru - Athirat - Gaea - Terra - Earth
god of the moon - Nanna - Sin - Yarikh - Selenê - Luna - Moon
god of knowledge - Enki Ea - Nabû - Taaut - Hermes- Mercurius - Mercury
goddess of love - Inanna - Ishtar - Astarte - Aphroditê - Venus - Venus
god of the sun - Utu - Shamash - Shamash - Helios - Sôl - Sun
god of war - Gugalanna - Nergal - Resheph - Ares - Mars - Mars
supreme god - Enlil - Marduk - Hadad - Zeus - Iuppiter - Jupiter
god of harvests - Ninurta - Ninurta - El - Kronos - Saturnus - Saturn
god of heavens - ?? - ?? - ?? - Ouranos - Uranus - Uranus

So by 'The Greek's logic you can argue that they are all named after Sumerian Gods.

For what it's worth ..