There is too much history, though, to think Solomon did not exist. The queen of Sheba visited him. So, he is in those writings. The Pheonecians were hired by him to bring about 66,000 lbs of gold every year by boat. They were nautical experts and their own writings talk of the massive amounts of gold found in what is known today as South America. He used much of that gold to build the first temple, a structure that is recorded in the history of Assyria, Babylon, and Persia. Heck, the detail alone is a dangerous thing to make up. It's not all poetic like you suppose, but there are specific dimensions given to the temple, the altar, the laver, even the amounts of gold and the specific materials and mixtures of color and embroidery that go into the structure, the curtain, everything. The destruction of the first temple is recorded in the history of other cultures, an especially the culture that dismantled the temple and took all its treasures for their own. Was Nebuchadnezzar fictional also? He, in his own history, drank from the cups he seized from the temple. So, the temple was real. But you are asking about Solomon. So, who in their right mind would build such a magnificant structure and then attribute it to a fictional character while leaving their own legacy to be forever lost? That is contrary to human nature. Something of that scale cannot just be swept under the carpet. There would have been thousands of workers, and, therefore, eye witnesses. And, again, the utter detail of Solomon's interactions with the temple, and with Israel and surrounding nations. Why bother mentioning something so specific like the fact that he extended the festival dedication to 14 days just to fit in all the sacrificesand, and risk having a fairy tale found out? I'm sorry, pull yourself away from the TV and get into some history. It's all there. Kings interact with other nations. So they're very easy to verify. Search the nations they supposedly interacted with and you'll find their names. If you still doubt at that point, the problem is with you. Not the evidence.