How are the gods characterized in this passage? what is the gods’ attitude toward mortals

What does the quote describe? “the closeness of the place, and the heat of the climate, added to the number in the ship, which was so crowded that each had scarcely room to turn himself, almost suffocated us….the shrieks of the women, and the groans of the dying, rendered the whole a scene of horror almost inconceivable.”

Aclaim about history is most likely not valid if it has which of these characteristics?

To what extent do you think the roman republic was democratic?