The devil was the adversary of the Purtians
In the story,"Acrhimedes and the Siege of Syracuse", King Hieron has a problem at the beginning. King Hieron problem was that the Romans were angry at the Carthaginians, because they can't tade soflty or nicely. It makes King Hieron more pumped and more mad. He gets//hires people to stop this and fix it. In conclusion, this is what King Hieron problem was.
We can discuss it from many different points. However, since in this question we have to look at this only from 3 aspects, let's look at the cases of education, health and social security. In all cases, if people don't have an equal access to these basic services, they will face with problems. If you cannot have a proper education, you cannot get a better job and it will create financial instability in the future. If you don't have an access to the healthy services in case of food, sanitation and water, you will easily have health problems. If you don't have a social security, burglars will steal your possessions easily.
I believe it might be C. Correct me if I am wrong.