ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that the post-colonial(ism) as well as the colonial(ism) it presupposes should be considered as appertaining to modern times. Post-colonial phenomena, at least those in the typical sense of the term, emerged only during the 20th century CE; and they were preceded by the colonialism of the modern age. The outcome of artists' tracing post-colonial questions in ancient thought, therefore, is that the ancient thinkers would recommend to them an idea of man that is very ambitious and as to its full meaning needs defence. Although the material submitted in the foregoing section certainly proves some respect for non-Greek cultures, it probably would be premature to conclude that respect for other cultures was a standard attitude in ancient Greece. In order to transpose Aristotle's argument to the modern world a substitution of his 'barbarians' by modern ones would be required as would a substitution of the ancient Greeks by modern people appointed to rule.
