The dramas of Euripides and of Racine concerning the tragic wife of the Trojan hero Hector, as well as studies by Seneca and Corneille, gave rise to a number of 18th-century operas, notably settings of libretti by Apostolo Zeno and by Antonio Salvi. They deal generally with the fate of Andromache after the fall of Troy and that of her son Astyanax. Saint-Saëns, among others, wrote incidental music for Racine’s Andromaque, the work that was the source of Salvi’s libretto.