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The Romans called the planets Mars and Jupiter in reverence to the respective Gods, were there any beliefs as to why there were so many stars beside the "Gods", or was this a part of Greco-Roman cannon that has been lost to time?

by /u/Lukescale in /r/AskHistorians

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