The Psalters are lavishly painted and artistically designed manuscripts of the Psalms, the biblical books traditionally attributed to King David. Their popularity was particularly reflected in Byzantine art, which produced some of the most valuable and impressive psalters preserved to this day. The Paris Psalter, created in the first half of the 10th century, certainly belongs to that group - a representative example of the artistic production of the Middle Byzantine period, called the "Macedonian Renaissance" due to the revival of ancient models. Its fourteen completely preserved illuminations best reflect the artistic reach of Byzantine painting, the synthesis of centuries-old Constantinople tradition and ancient roots, which never completely died out in the East. By its character, the psalter belongs to the group of "aristocratic" psalters, a term connected with those that contain full.-page illuminations. Iconographically, they can be classified into three categories: David's cycle, Moses' cycle and a group of thematically separate Old Testament characters (Hana, Jonah, Isaiah, Hezekiah). This work provides an analysis and interpretation of certain iconographic elements: typology of characters, appearance and function of personifications, environment and background, and Hellenistic heritage in the form of selected templates. The aim of the iconographic analysis is to confirm the ancient classical "revival" which makes the manuscript extremely artistically valuable and occupies a special place within the framework of the Middle Byzantine period. Because of its classicizing layer, it left a huge impact on the production of illuminated manuscripts and gave a new vision to the study of the role of antiquity in Byzantine art.