Actaeon heaping up the glowing ashes for you,<br> And cooked ewe-lambs for you every day.<br> But you hit him and turned him into a wolf,<br> His own herd-boys hunt him down<br> And his dogs tear at his haunches.<br><nowiki>"</nowiki>Actaeon, torn apart by dogs incited by Artemis, finds another Near Eastern parallel in the Ugaritic hero Aqht, torn apart by eagles incited by Anath who wanted his hunting bow. The virginal Artemis of classical times is not directly comparable to Ishtar of the many lovers, but the mytheme of Artemis shooting Orion, was linked to her punishment of Actaeon by T.C.W. Stinton; the
He Was a Friend of Mine recording of the song eventually had its official issuance in 1991 on volume 1 of Columbia Records' Dylan Bootleg Series. When Dave van Ronk recorded Dylan's version of the song on his own 1962 Prestige album "Dave Van Ronk, Folksinger", he incorrectly listed Dylan as the song's author. The Byrds included a reworded version of "He Was a Friend of Mine" on their 1965 album "Turn! Turn! Turn!" ("see" 1965 in music). In The Byrds' version, the song's melody is altered and the lyrics are changed to lament the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The band's lead guitarist Jim McGuinn