• brief introduction to Sophocles and his plays (at About.com)
• more detailed life of Sophocles (see #3) from the Perseus Database

Images

• Information about, and images and plans of, the Theater of Dionysus in the Perseus Database
• Dr. J's Illustrated South Slope of the Acropolis: The Theater of Dionysos
• The Theater of Dionysus is at the middle bottom of this aerial view of the slope of the acropolis
• South Slope of the Acropolis (METIS: A QTVR Interface for Ancient Greek Archaeological Sites)
• Reconstruction of the theater of Dionysus (at Didaskalia)
• The Aldine manuscript of Sophocles' works: facsimile reproductions and explanation

Texts

• Works of Sophocles (in English) in the Internet Classics Archive
• Browse or search the Greek texts (or English) of Sophocles' plays in the Perseus Database
• Andrew Wilson's Oedipus page, including the Oedipus Game
• Janice Siegel's, The Sphinx and Oedipus Rex
• Roger Dunkle's Study Guide for Oedipus Rex
• New translation of Antigone, plus notes, by William Blake Tyrell and Larry Bennett at Diotima
• Robin Mitchell-Boyask's course, Greek Drama and Culture, with study guides for many of Sophocles' plays
• Live from Antiquity! a lesson plan that asks students to be imagine themselves as time-travelling reporters sent back to the time of Sophocles to report on the opening of his new play, Antigone; another lesson plan for Sophocles' Antigone

Related Materials: Ancient Greek Theater

• Introduction to the ancient theater, plus great articles on Greek and Roman stagecraft (at Didaskalia)
• Dr. J's Illustrated Greek Theater
• John Porter, Greek Tragedy and the Ancient Stage
• Thomas Martin's overview of the Development of Greek Tragedy (Perseus)
• Connections Between Ancient Greek Theater and Religion (CTCWeb) weaves texts from Perseus with images and study questions to help students understand the religious dimension of Greek theater
• Skenotheke: Images of the Ancient Stage
• Theatron: Virtual Reality, Multimedia, Cultural Heritage
• Greek and Roman Drama: A Bibliography (Porter)

Related Materials: Modern Performances of Ancient Greek Theater

• Didaskalia: Ancient Theater Today
• MASC: Modern Actors Staging Classics
• Greg McCart's Mask Workshop (Open University)
• Amy Cohen's blog on Masks and the Greek Play
• The Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (University of Oxford)
• Reception of the texts and images of ancient Greece in late twentieth-century drama and poetry (Open University)