{'fraction_non_alphanumeric': 0.025689819219790674, 'fraction_numerical': 0.010466222645099905, 'mean_word_length': 4.5661375661375665, 'pattern_counts': {'":': 0, '<': 0, '<?xml version=': 0, '>': 0, 'https://': 0, 'lorem ipsum': 0, 'www.': 0, 'xml': 0}, 'pii_count': 0, 'substrings_counts': 0, 'word_list_counts': {'cursed_substrings.json': 0, 'profanity_word_list.json': 0, 'sexual_word_list.json': 0, 'zh_pornsignals.json': 0}}
The Classical Tradition

This volume appears at just a five-year interval after Classical Influences on European Culture A.D. 500—1500 also edited by Dr. Bolgar. It brings the story into the modern era and a further volume is promised to take it up to the nineteenth century. The approach used here is not a systematic one, i.e. no attempt is made to cover the whole field indicated by the title, but participants at the conference (held at King's College Cambridge in April 1974) were allowed to write on subjects as narrow or as broad as they wished. The reader must be attentive to notice that science as an aspect of the classical tradition has been deliberately excluded, as Professor Wilkinson tells us in his preface (p.vi), but several participants touch on scientific topics nevertheless. The resulting volume is composed of twenty-seven contributions, in addition to Dr. Bolgar's lengthy introduction. By far the greater proportion of papers deal with the sixteenth century and those relating to the next century are very thin on the ground.