I hope this is the right sub to pos this.
I am from Greece, and when I was in junior high we were given a book at school that we actually never got to use in class. It was a book of translated ancient Greek text.
I read it on my own anyway, and there was a story so crazy that I feel stupid even writing it down. It was about two clans that dwelled among the stars and were at war. One of the clans was riding hypogryphs with wings that looked like lettuce leafs (this is how the author described them).
Can anyone pinpoint me to the author and/or of the text?
I think you are meaning the True History by Lucian of Samasota? One part of that text, the only part anyone ever pays attention to today, is indeed a crazy, plant-adjective-using space war:
Our army numbered 100,000 (exclusive of camp-followers, engineers, infantry, and allies), the Horse-vultures amounting to 80,000, and the remaining 20,000 being mounted on Salad-wings. These latter are also enormous birds, fledged with various herbs, and with quill-feathers resembling lettuce leaves.
And don't feel bad; it's supposed to seem crazy:
I now make the only true statement you are to expect--that I am a liar. This confession is, I consider, a full defence against all imputations. My subject is, then, what I have neither seen, experienced, nor been told, what neither exists nor could conceivably do so. I humbly solicit my readers' incredulity.
The prologue is actually really great--crafty Lucian leaves it ambiguous whether his invented voyage to made-up places and people is a satire of the literature that copies Homer's beloved Odyssey--or whether Odyssey is included in the targeted works that Lucian wants to reveal as ridiculous.