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The following passage is Ecclesiastes 9:14
A small city, and few people in it, and a great king comes there, and encircled it and built upon it great fortifications. And he found in it, a poor wise man, who delivered the city in his wisdom, and nobody remembered this poor man.
Upon reading this, I immediately thought of Archimedes. I found people calling this an analogy.
But considering the late date of Ecc, could this be a direct reference to the siege of Syracuse? Is it consistent with the dating of the text to identify the “poor wise man” as Archimedes?
