 The island of Capri is usually excluded, as it does not belong to the same geologic formations.In the classical epoch, some Phlegraean Islands were called Pithecussae, the Greek "" (, ‘islands of monkeys’).A Greek myth tells of two brigands, the Cercopes of Ephesus, who played pranks on Zeus, who then punished them by turning them into monkeys and exiling them to the islands of Aenaria (Ischia) and Prochyta (Procida).