According to myth he was the father of Saturn and the grandfather of Jupiter.

Roman name for uranus. Herschel followed the Roman precedent of naming planets after Roman gods. Astronomers decided to continue naming the planets after Roman Gods with one exception - Uranus. Astronomers decided to continue naming the planets after Roman Gods with one exception - Uranus.

Named by William Herschel. Uranus Roman Counterpart was Caelus When the Roman Empire conquered the Greeks in 146BC the Romans assimilated various elements from other cultures and civilisations including the gods. Uranus more commonly spelled Ouranos was a Greek god not a Roman one as the deities that gave their names to the other planets.

Uranus is the ancient Greek deity of the Heavens the earliest supreme god. The planet Uranus is so named because it is adjacent to Saturn. Pluto is the conventional Roman name and you might use it for a trivia question but really Pluto a god of wealth is the equivalent of a Greek god of wealth called Dis.

The Romans named the five planets closest to the Sun after their most important gods. Most are named after characters in Roman or Greek mythologybut there are a lot of exceptions The moons of Uranus for example are named for the most part after characters in Shakespeares The. It is the Latin version of the Greek Ouranos the sky god.

He discovered it in 1781 and the name was universally accepted by 1850. Uranus was named after the Greek god of the sky. Although the Roman name for the god Sky was Caelus the Latin spelling of the Greek name Ouranos was Uranus.

Picture of Uranus Ouranos castrated by his son Cronus. To the Aztecs and other Nahuatl-speaking peoples Uranus was known as Ilhuicateocitlalli named after the word for sky ilhuicatl and also as Xiuhteuccitlalli. Astronomy is very old science - with at.