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Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Jupiter were named after living Olympian gods. Yet Saturn is named after Jupiter's dead father. Why was Saturn named after a titan when all the other known planets were named after Olympians?

by /u/MagisterMystax in /r/AskHistorians

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