The Relationship Between God and Human

In the greek myths we see, as you've described, sisyphus and other myths that talk about the pantasy of becoming a mortal. Sysyphus is a good example, because not only does he get eternally punished, but he the reason he's punished is because he tries to outwit death twice. And yet, of course, having relationships between god and human are troubled, especially actually, if it's a female god, a goddess, and a human man. There's the story of aeos dawn and tithonus,. She falls in love with tithonUS, a mortal man, and asks him to be made immortal, but

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