Throwing an apple at somebody was considered flirting in ancient Greece
In ancient Greece, the apple was considered sacred to Aphrodite (the goddess of love). So, to throw an apple at someone was to symbolically declare one’s love. Similarly, to catch it was to symbolically show one’s acceptance of that love. An epigram claiming authorship by Plato states:
I throw the apple at you, and if you are willing to love me, take it and share your girlhood with me; but if your thoughts are what I pray they are not, even then take it, and consider how short-lived is beauty. To make a long story short, if someone threw an apple right in your face, you shouldn’t get mad. They were probably infatuated with you.
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