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This play's value today lies entirely in the fact that it was historically influential, and as a look into Greek culture. There is absolutely no reason to read it for any sort of entertainment or insight for the modern reader - it's basically a hundred pages of nothing but, "Dionysius is amazing". Antigone lead me to expect Greek classics to have actual moral dilemmas and reasons to be invested in the protagonist (or even, like, a real protagonist to be invested in), but based on this play and what I now know about Greek classics, Antigone is the exception rather than the rule.