National Archaeological Museum in Athens Part II

I wrote about this museum during our first week in Athens Click here to read first post. We went back today, and there was a new exhibit. The following description comes from the museum's website:

The new exhibition of the National Archaeological Museum "Odysseys" is the main commemorative event on the occasion of the 150th anniversary since the foundation of the Museum. It attempts to give an account of the adventurous journey of man through time considered from an abstract and symbolic perspective that draws its inspiration from the Homeric Odyssey. One hundred and eighty-four works that come either from the permanent exhibition or the rich in archaeological material storerooms of the Museum's Collections and six loans, three from the Epigraphic Museum and three from the Acropolis Museum, are presented.

Skylla

Skylla was a sea-monster in the Odyssey on the opposite side of the straight from Charybdis

A marble statue of Skylla. I think I just like her because she is part dogs.

This bronze statue of Poseidon takes up a large part of the exhibit. You'll notice he looks like he has blue splotches on his body, but that is the lighting in the exhibit. I think they were going for an under the sea look.

I found this piece to be interesting. According to the description this is "A nude youth with Attic helmet depicted moving to the right in the pose of a runner. This is probably a funerary monument for a hoplite(soldier). According to another view, it represents a dancer of the pyrrichean war dance." What do you think - running soldier or dancer? I'm not really seeing either.

Group of Aphrodite, Pan, and Eros.

Aphrodite, naked, possibly in the bath, threatens Pan with her sandal. The winged Eros appears as mediator.

Yesterday I helped out at the Malcolm H. Wiener Laboratory for Archaeological Science by sorting and matching skeletal remains aka bones from an excavated grave site. That was pretty neat. We also did a trivia night last night for fun hosted by some members of the school here. Our team came in 5th. There were six teams. We were very happy to not come in last. Some of the questions they did were word plays, and I'm going to share one with you that I figured out for our team and was so proud. What one word can go before the following three words in order to make three new phrases?

__________ bottom

__________ core

__________ watch

Here's a picture of the teams gathering while you think about the possible answer.

One more picture of the Aphrodite, Pan, and Eros just to take up more space so the answer to the above puzzle isn't seen on the screen at the same time as the puzzle itself.

Were you able to come up with the answer?

It was apple. Apple bottom, apple core, apple watch.