Thucydides on the Greek settlement of Sicily. Interesting to read this with Mycenaean settlement archaeology in Sicily, as well as some DNA on Bronze Age Sicily that looks Minoan. 
If Iliad survived as a memory of a Mycenaean war in Ionia, suppose oral traditions from the Bronze Age Greek world could have survived long enough for Thucydides to record them.
Maccabees reference the Spartans and Jews having kinship. Maybe a dim memory of the Philistines being Greeks, and there being some intermarriage with the Jews?
Thucydides was unaware of the origins of original (EEF) inhabitants of Sicily, but did know that their (Bronze Age IE) successors came from Iberia. Interestingly he writes that Trojans & Phoenicians settled Sicily prior to the Greeks.
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