system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[General] Why do people typically name starships based off of old Roman and Greek names? To an extent modern Humans barely even do that anymore wouldn’t the history be mostly forgotten?
gpt
Because lots of celestial objects are named after divine beings. Even today when we officially give bodies name other than something bland like VX-2134 we usually go for old gods names. 

It's tradition and often very fitting given the nature of the cosmos and ships traveling within them.