What is the author's style in Death in Venice by Thomas Mann?

By liberally dosing his story with implicit and explicit allusions to Greek mythology, and by incorporating Platonic dialogues into a realistic story, Mann highlights von Aschenbach's love of classicism and antiquity. Such references also make the story, for a 1912 readership, more palatable, as they lessen the impact of Mann's exploration of same sex, inter-generational erotic love.