Hercules did it to impress the girls, Goddesses, Nymphs, Priestesses...they hung around him cause he was quite the guy. I saw it on tv, so it's gotta be true
IIRC Diodorus or Strabo wrote that in their lifetime there were people that had Oral traditions passed down of when Sicily suddenly separated from Italy. A huge BANG/CRACK....and Hey Presto....the Straits of Messina.
I think you can drop a few zeros from the timeline.
....And something completely unrelated....