women and unemotional instability

• Allecto is female - personification of destructive jealousy
• defining quality of women seem to be their irrationality or furor
• consequent tendency to upset the male order of things
• Dido and Amata are the obvious examples
• Hermes says 'women are unstable creatures, always changing'
• Camilla is brought down by a weakness for a rather nice embroidered cloak and tunic