> maze vs. labyrinth was way more interesting The article says the Minotaur myth’s labyrinth was “obviously a maze”, but I doubt it. In the myth, Ariadne gave

> maze vs. labyrinth was way more interesting The article says the Minotaur myth’s labyrinth was “obviously a maze”, but I doubt it. In the myth, Ariadne gave Theseus a ball of thread (a clew) on the advice of Daedalus, the creator of the labyrinth [1]. And “Theseus followed Daedalus' instructions given to Ariadne: go forwards, always down, and never left or right” [3] "till he found the Minotaur asleep in the inmost recess" [2]. Getting a "clew" instead of a map from the labyrinth's creator makes me think it's likely symbolic... or that Daedalus expected Theseus to do a DFS search? Plus the “clew” wasn't strictly needed, since reversing those instructions for finding the Minotaur would've got him out again. That makes me think the Minotaur was trapped in a proper single-path labyrinth. Of course it’s just interpretation, and some think differently [4], which makes this way more interesting! [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theseus#Theseus_and_the_Minotaur https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theseus#Theseus_and_the_Minota... [2]: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022:text=Epitome:book=E:chapter=1&highlight=daedalus#note9 http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:19... [3]: https://www.hellenic.org.au/post/theseus-and-the-minotaur-the-man-the-myth-and-the-science https://www.hellenic.org.au/post/theseus-and-the-minotaur-th... [4]: Like here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labyrinth#cite_ref-5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labyrinth#cite_ref-5 . But note the book it cites, from my reading of it, actually says something more nuanced and subject to interpretation.