That's actually something of a problem with the myth; while the Minotaur being trapped in the labyrinth at Knossos implies that it was a complicated maze, whenever the Greeks or Romans actually
drew a labyrinth it was invariably unicursal (i.e. non-branching). See more at
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My dude...the very page you wrote about states:
"Although early Cretan coins occasionally exhibit branching (multicursal) patterns,
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the single-path (unicursal) seven-course "Classical" design without branching or dead ends became associated with the Labyrinth on coins as early as 430 BC,
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and similar non-branching patterns became widely used as visual representations of the Labyrinth – even though both logic and literary descriptions make it clear that the Minotaur was trapped in a complex branching maze.
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Even as the designs became more elaborate, visual depictions of the mythological Labyrinth from Roman times until the Renaissance are almost invariably unicursal. Branching mazes were reintroduced only when
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became popular during the Renaissance."
"even though both logic and literary descriptions make it clear that the Minotaur was trapped in a complex branching maze."
So the popular depiction in visual art was non-branching, but the myth itself is branching indeed, considering myths are transferred more from oral or literary traditions rather than visual art.
