partially related..
the Minotaur is one of the main "characters" in Physics of Sorrow by Georgi Gospodinov.
https://www.amazon.com/Physics-Sorrow-Georgi-Gospodinov/dp/1...
https://losangelesreview.org/book-review-the-physics-of-sorr...
I always considered https://files.blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/397... the true one
the Master
English version, but paywalled: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/history-magazine/...
(can read in FF's "reader mode").
Archive link: https://archive.ph/gsv8r
It seems disabling JavaScript on that page also loads the full content.
The article is in french
So we know the minotaur probably didn't speak English.
My browser has a translate feature. I imagine it's pretty standard.
This appears to be the English version : https://archive.is/gsv8r