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...

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