In Roman mythology, Saturn is the father of Jupiter, so the new planet used the Greek name for Saturn's father - Uranus. When another new planet was announced almost 100 years later, it was named ...

Second, Saturn is the father of Jupiter in mythology, and Uranus’s Roman counterpart (Caelus) ... that Uranus is the only Greek god amongst a planetary neighborhood full of Romans.

Uranus has 27 moons and, ... All of them represent Greek and Roman water mythology. The largest moon is Triton, which is nearly as large as Earth’s Moon. The most recently discovered ...

In Greek myth, the Giants were created after the Titan, Cronos castrated his father Uranus, with his blood creating a race of Giants or Gigantes. Heron from "Blood of Zeus" is not a real character ...