Inspired by the idea of a digital exhibition, the APGRD has produced two free interactive multimedia ebooks on the performance histories of Euripides' Medea and Aeschylus' Agamemnon: 

• Medea, a performance history
• Agamemnon, a performance history

Funded by an AHRC Follow-On Funding award, the ebooks are full of digitised photographic, audio, and video archival material as well as bespoke interviews and performances from scholars and theatre practitioners. They are designed to appeal to a wide variety of readers from across the globe - in schools, universities, in the creative industries, and amongst the wider public.

Each book consists of six thematic chapters, which can be read in any order. Hyperlinks are also woven throughout the books, allowing readers to choose their own path through related content. The digitised content is typically presented via interactive widgets, again allowing the reader to decide when to skim over content and when to take a deeper dive. Comprehensive glossaries and pop-over boxes provide biographies, further information on historical contexts, and explanations of specialised terms.

The first APGRD ebook, Medea, a performance history was published in 2016; it was written and curated by Fiona Macintosh and Claire Kenward, and built by Tom Wrobel. 

For Agamemnon, a performance history we made the decision to release it in three instalments of two related chapters, between 2020 and 2023, before publishing the full version in 2023. It was written and curated by Fiona Macintosh and Claire Kenward, and built by Claire Kenward.

Both books are available for free, thanks to the funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AH/M008762/1).

The project also produced an ebook Creation Toolkit to enable others to create their own interactive/multimedia ebooks. The Toolkit is freely available under a creative commons licence: 

• Read the Toolkit (pdf) (CC-BY-SA)

Our ebooks and toolkit have directly inspired three external projects, each of which consulted or worked directly with members of our ebook team.

Queering the Past(s). Under the lead of Nancy Rabinowitz, and with the support of The Classical Association, a team of teachers and scholars developed an interactive online resource, Queering the Past(s), addressing an important gap in school education on LGBTQ+ subjects, using information from antiquity to help students gain confidence in addressing modern critical (and contentious) issues.

Manual of Roman Everyday Writing. The LatinNow project, hosted by Oxford's CSAD (Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents), produced two bespoke online ebooks: Alex Mullen and Alan Bowman's Manual of Roman Everyday Writing, Vol. 1 Scripts and Texts, and Anna Willi's Manual of Roman Everyday Writing, Vol. 2 Writing Equipment.

Sophocles' Antigone, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. In 2019, students from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln enrolled on a project to produce an ebook on the performance history of Sophocles' Antigone. The students, under the direction of Mike Lippman, attended a series of online tutorials by the APGRD team (on copyright issues, design considerations, and technical concerns) before taking up a week-long residence to research the APGRD collections. The aim was to provide the students with a range of professional extracurricular skills beyond the normal remit of their studies.

• Fiona Macintosh
• Claire Kenward
• Tom Wrobel
• with illustrations by Thom Cuschieri