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The Claim

In the book "Romulus and Remus: The Myth of Rome's Origins", T. P. Wiseman wrote the sentence: "The legend as a whole encapsulates Rome’s ideas of itself, its origins and moral values."

The Short Version

The evidence does not support that Wiseman wrote that exact sentence in the named book. Reliable sources in the record identify related works and similar themes, but they do not show the quoted line in a primary-text view. The only sources reproducing the wording are low-credibility webpages without a precise, verifiable citation, and the book title itself appears mismatched with higher-authority listings.

Caveats

  • This is an exact-quotation claim, and no reliable primary-text source in the record confirms the sentence in the specified book.
  • The attribution is weakened by a bibliographic mismatch: authoritative sources point to related Wiseman titles, not clearly to the named one.
  • Do not treat paraphrased ideas or repeated web quotations from weak sites as proof of a verbatim line in a specific published work.

The Receipts

  1. [PDF] Remus: A Roman Myth TP Wiseman Excerpt

    Cambridge University Press

  2. Remus: A Roman Myth - Timothy Peter Wiseman

    Google Books

  3. The Myths of Rome - Timothy Peter Wiseman

    Google Books

  4. T.P. Wiseman · When Demigods Walked the Earth

    London Review of Books

  5. 1997.5.18, Wiseman, Remus

    Bryn Mawr Classical Review

  6. The Myths of Rome

    Bryn Mawr Classical Review

  7. Myth of Romulus and Remus | History | Research Starters

    EBSCO

  8. REVIEWS

    IU ScholarWorks

  9. PMW (1988). “The Lupercalia and the Romulus and Remus Legend ...

    giacobbegiusti.wordpress.com

  10. Romulus and Remus: The Haunting Effects of Violent Beginnings

    OpenHorizons

+ 3 more sources — see the full list on Lenz

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Romulus And Remus: The Myth Of Rome's OriginsT. P. Wiseman