221 BC deaths

queen regnant of Cyrenaica from 258 to 246 BCE and queen of Ptolemaic Egypt (246–221 BC)

Carthaginian military leader and politician (c. 270–221 BC)

king of Macedonia

Roman dictator in 224 BC

Xenoetas (; ; killed in 221 BC) was an Achaean in the service of the Seleucid king Antiochus the Great; he was despatched by his chief minister Hermeias in command of an army against the rebel satrap of Media, Molon, in 221 BC. This unusual distinction seems greatly to have elated him. He conducted himself arrogantly towards his friends, and exhibited no small presumption and rashness in his military operations. He succeeded in crossing the Tigris, but fell into the snare laid for him by Molon, who feigned a retreat, and suddenly returning surprised Xenoetas when the greater part of his forces