Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2002.08.30 Barbara A. Barletta, The
Origins of the Greek Architectural Orders. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2001. Pp. xi + 220. ISBN 0-521-79245-2.
$70.00. Reviewed by Rhys F. Townsend, Clark University
(email@example.com) Word count: 2223 words Discussion, debate,
and determination of the origin of the Greek architectural
orders is at least as old as Vitruvius. Modern scholarly
literature on the subject is exhaustive, and, one might think,
largely exhausted. Surely, there are few issues more central to
the history of Greek architecture, but at this point it is not
too much to ask, "What more can be said?" Barletta demonstrates
that the answer is "a good deal." Her relatively short book,
considering the vast sweep of the topic, is succinct but
thorough in its appraisal of scholarship (she even cites at one
point a reference to a lost manuscript by Drerup(!) and at
another a forthcoming article by Mark Wilson Jones that appeared
in print just as this review was being writte