Answer: discourage
Explanation: I am going to assume that you made spelling errors when you said "motice" and "emcourage" and meant notice and encourage, respectively. Discourage is the opposite of encourage, and ignore is the opposite of notice, so discourage is the proper answer.
What poem ? the only text is the question your asking
Answer:
cruel / pitiless / without compassion
1.The answer here is simple when you see what kind a man Ulysses, that is
Odysseus is and what Minerva, that is Athena is the goddess of. Ulysses
is a one of the best, if not best, strategists of his time and his guile
and wits are legendary and respected. Minerva is a goddess of wisdom
and warfare, especially warfare strategy. Ulysses is a human embodiment
of the traits that she is the patron of an that is why he is favored by
this particular goddess.
2.As I sad before Minerva helps Ulysses because of who he is, his traits, and that would be the reason Homer used Minerva to held Ulysses as he embodies the traits she is the Goddess of, that is Strategy and Wisdom. In chapter XIII she says : "We will say no more, however, about this, for we can both
of us deceive upon occasion- you are the most accomplished counsellor and
orator among all mankind, while I for diplomacy and subtlety have no equal
among the gods." This is in the translation by Samuel Butler.
