Human nature is unpredictable. With seven billion people living on our planet’s crust and the numbers growing every day, there are too many thoughts and emotions to perceive a specific human nature. In both Book II and Book IV of Virgil’s The Aeneid, the poet laces his own ideas of human nature into every stanza. In The Aeneid, our main character and hero, Aeneas, is fresh surviving the aftermath the Greeks left due to the Trojan War. Aeneas is tasked to set out on a quest to begin rebuilding an origin story for his heritage. That city is also known as Rome. Virgil hints in this epic about a common human nature: self-serving bias. Self-serving bias is a person’s “tendency to attribute positive events to their own character but attribute negative
