The earliest version of the Kronos myth--Saturn is the later Roman name--was written down by Hesiod in his Theogony, around the eighth century, B.C.E. First comes Chaos; then Earth/Gaia; Tartarus in ...

Credit: Galileo Galilei Saturn is one of the five classical planets visible to the unaided eye. Astronomers of ancient Greece named it for the titan Kronos. The Romans called it "the star of ...