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Apollo, I gathered from my classes; at least the Socrates presented by Plato. (I'm not well-read enough in Xenophon or the Straussian esoteric interpretations to summarize their versions.) Most obviously, Delphi wasn't Zeus's; that'd be Dodonna or one of the other oracles. As well, the text of things like the Apology or The Republic are vague enough that one could - and many like medieval Christians have - make Socrates out to be a monotheist, which allows for disbelief in Zeus.