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Thomas Mann, one of the twentieth-century German writers, has written “Death in Venice” which is the center of our work. We tried to analyze the developments in the event organization, which were discussed in the work and offered a rich reading opportunity, with mythological events. Starting from the work, we tried to reveal the reflections of the characteristics of some of the gods mentioned in the ancient Greek mythology, referring to the reflections in the characters mentioned in the work. We followed the traces of the writer Aschenbach, the main character, how he turned from the line of logic, mind and order into the line of emotions, passion, excitement and love. We tried to place these two opposite thought structures in the apollonistic and dionistic thought that Nietzsche developed by addressing the characteristics of the gods of Apollon and Dionysos from Ancient Greece. As a messenger of the gods, we pointed to the fact that Hermes, who was famous in his Greek mythology, accompanied Aschenbach with different characters from the beginning to the end of the work, and emphasized his characteristics.

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