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The intent of this paper is to clarify the symbolic meanings represented by the personification of the Goddess Aphrodite-especially to differentiate her attributes such as beauty,love, and fertility. In Plato\u27s Symposium we can get to know the theory of two Aphrodites. One is Aphrodite Urania, the daughter of Uranos. She was born from the ocean without mother. The other is Aphrodite Pandemos whose parents are Zeus and Dione. The question is how these two Aphrodites represent different symbolic images or concepts under the same name \u27Aphrodite\u27. Pausanias\u27 discourse in Symposium can be interpreted in various ways. One is defence of homosexual pederasty, and another is promotion of the love for virtue. However, his thought is likely to be the happy compromise of Platonic ideas of love and civil morality. Mythologically, Aphrodite\u27s origin is traced to the Orient, which another Pausanias\u27 Guide to Greece and Herodote\u27s History testify. The myth of Aphrodite Urania appears in Hesiode\u27s Theogony, and that of Aphrodite Pandemos can be seen in Homer\u27s Illiade, which, however, is not necessarily the only source. For there is some evidence that in Athens she was worshipped politically and customarily by citizens under the government of democracy