 Orion also has etiological connection to the city of Messina in Sicily . Diodorus of Sicily wrote a history of the world up to his own time ( the beginning of the reign of Augustus ) . He starts with the gods and the heroes . At the end of this part of the work , he tells the story of Orion and two wonder @-@ stories of his mighty earth @-@ works in Sicily . One tells how he aided Zanclus , the founder of Zancle ( the former name for Messina ) , by building the promontory which forms the harbor . The other , which Diodorus ascribes to Hesiod , relates that there was once a broad sea between Sicily and the mainland . Orion built the whole Peloris , the Punta del Faro , and the temple to Poseidon at the tip , after which he settled in Euboea . He was then " numbered among the stars of heaven and thus won for himself immortal remembrance " . The Renaissance historian and mathematician Francesco Maurolico , who came from Messina , identified the remains of a temple of Orion near the present Messina Cathedral . Maurolico also designed an ornate fountain , built by the sculptor Giovanni Angelo Montorsoli in 1547 , in which Orion is a central figure , symbolizing the Emperor Charles V , also a master of the sea and restorer of Messina ; Orion is still a popular symbol of the city . 
