The first-time discovery and critical edition (editio princeps) of the two tragedies by the previously unknown writer Zacharias Karantinos, written in Ancient Greek in the early 18th century (with Abel likely from the last two decades of the 17th century), holds multiple significances for various areas of modern Greek culture, as these works are unique on many levels: for 18th-century Greek literature, in the chapter on Scholars of the Ottoman period.

They mark a milestone on the path of Orthodoxy towards theater, which began in 1692 with the satirical "To Achouri," also set in Bucharest, although in Karantinos’ case, his two tragedies imitate ancient tragedy on many levels, with one of the two having a purely historical theme.

The modern Greek religious theater gains two new texts of considerable importance, yet from a different spiritual context than that of the Aegean religious theater of the period 1600-1750, influenced by the existence of Jesuit theater and the dramatic model of martyr tragedies.

They serve as significant documents for understanding Ancient Greek in the Orthodox religious schools of the time and are ultimately unique because they cannot be categorized within any of the traditional frameworks of literary and theater studies: Ancient Greek dramatic texts that imitate Attic tragedy, written in the early 18th century in a school and clerical environment in Bucharest or Constantinople.

They are unique evidence of the level of scholarly knowledge and linguistic ability of the clergy, as well as the spiritual atmosphere in Greek religious schools during the Ottoman period.